“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.” ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce

Baby Couch Potatoes

Unhealthy inactivity isn’t just a problem for middle-aged men anymore. In fact, we appear to be creating baby couch potatoes. According to the latest survey on children’s physical activity, more than half of preschoolers are dangerously inactive.
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Is Playtime Really Over?

Author and psychologist David Elkind has written an opinion piece that underlines the sorry state of play, at least in schools. Elkind, who has long abhorred the lack of unstructured time that we allow for our children, has come out (at least reservedly) in favor of structuring recess with coaches! We believe there is a better way.
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Play is
Self-Directed Learning

“Children need to explore the world and experiment to really begin to understand how things work. They need many experiences of rolling down a hill, rolling a ball down a hill, watching water from a hose run down a hill, seeing streams run down hill, etc. in order to grasp what gravity means.”
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Life Learning book about unschooling