Author - Inspiring, Innovative and Captivating
Silken is the best-selling author of Child’s Play, a book about rediscovering the joy of play in our families. She has also written articles for the Globe and Mail, Today’s Parent, Parents Canada, Chatelaine, Canadian Health and Lifestyle magazines.
Publications
Rediscovering the Joy of Play
in Our Families and Our Communities
By Silken Laumann
Random House
Published April 2006
From one of Canada's most inspiring and gifted sports heroes, an urgently needed book for parents, educators and caregivers wishing to raise more active and healthy kids....read more
Huffington Post Blogs
Jan
24
When I opened the Globe and Mail this week, I was absolutely delighted to see the centre section with a two- page spread of the intense faces of three female Iranian athletes in the full...read more
Jan
18
A teen boy sits opposite his mother and asks this question in an advertisement running in Georgia. The next caption says 75 per cent of Georgia parents with overweight kids don't recognize the...read more
Jan
03
I am writing my list: the list of all the things I am proud I have accomplished in 2011. It sounds kind of inspiring, but in fact it encompasses mostly modest things like giving up running yellow...read more
Jan
02
On Sunday I was skiing down Mt. Washington in British Columbia alone on a glorious sunny day when I caught an edge and veered out of control off the groomed part of the trail, where I immediately saw...read more
Nov
30
Last week I was driving back from Mount Washington with my girlfriend Karin when I chanced to look at my gas gauge. Chanced, may be a clue to the systematic way I remember my gas levels. The gas...read more
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