“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.”Read more of this article . . .
