Encouraging Children to Play Outside
30 May 2016
As adults, most of us have hazy memories of long summer holidays as…
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Show or tell: How should educators and playworkers back up their real-time decisions about risk?
26 May 2016
This post explores how the real-time decisions of educators, playworkers and other staff…
Read more »Dirt is not dirty – how playing in the dirt benefits the immune system
25 May 2016
At present, our culture is overly obsessive about germs, cleanliness, and hygiene. Parents…
Read more »Creative play: In praise of getting messy
17 May 2016
If your Mother’s Day flower looked more like a squashed bug or you…
Read more »Reasons for Grown Up Recess!
17 May 2016
Remember sitting in the classroom, watching the clock and praying for the bell…
Read more »THE UNSAFE CHILD: Less Outdoor Play is Causing More Harm than Good
13 May 2016
The third grade classroom that was visiting our nature center for the day…
Read more »Lessons from ‘The Goonies,’ and from the loss of unsupervised time for kids
13 May 2016
I was watching “The Goonies” with my 8-year-old son recently. It was an…
Read more »How playing with “loose parts” can be highly engaging
13 May 2016
“In any environment, both the degree of inventiveness and creativity, and the possibility…
Read more »Please Don’t Help My Kids
11 May 2016
“I am not sitting here, 15 whole feet away from my kids, because…
Read more »The Territotry of Play – A Playful Path
6 May 2016
The territory of play has no boundaries – other than those temporary boundaries…
Read more »‘Play Freely at Your Own Risk’
15 March 2016
A history of adventure playgrounds, which offer children the opportunity for no-rules recreation….
Read more »Comment: ‘It’s important for children to learn to be cold, wet, and survive that’
11 March 2016
Teacher Jane Williams-Siegfredsen was at first shocked and fascinated by Denmark’s forest kindergartens….
Read more »India Knight: British children are too sad
11 March 2016
Our children are among the unhappiest in the world. But here’s how to…
Read more »Forest Schools: Education as Nature Intended
1 February 2016
If you think today’s children spend too much time indoors, you’re not alone….
Read more »Heavy schoolbags pose health threat to children, claims MP
9 September 2015
Schoolchildren are at risk of developing back problems because of burdensome backpacks, a…
Read more »Let’s make a DEN! There’s nothing more magical for children… or grown-ups (and there isn’t a plastic toy, a piece of merchandising or computer in sight)
2 July 2015
A Sunday afternoon, and one of those days when afternoon boredom sets in….
Read more »Study Compares Active Video Gaming to Unstructured Outdoor Play
12 June 2015
The increasing use of video games is often blamed for children’s lack of…
Read more »Raising confident children: Why you should let your kids fall out of trees
4 June 2015
The goal of parenting is not to simply get your children to adulthood…
Read more »THE UNSAFE CHILD: Less Outdoor Play is Causing More Harm than Good
3 June 2015
The third grade classroom that was visiting our nature center for the day…
Read more »THE UNSAFE CHILD: Less Outdoor Play is Causing More Harm than Good
12 May 2015
The third grade classroom that was visiting our nature center for the day…
Read more »The cognitive benefits of play: Effects on the learning brain
6 May 2015
Interesting blog – click here Science supports many of our intuitions about the benefits of…
Read more »Philip Pullman: children need the freedom to take risks
5 May 2015
The pressure on children to succeed in exams is an awful imprisonment and…
Read more »When Parents Invade Childhood
10 April 2015
Trust is essential to raising capable, happy, self-confident children. Full blog
Read more »Bring Back the Lost Art of Tinkering
2 April 2015
In March, a Manhattan mother, Nicole Imprescia, sued her 4-year old daughter’s private…
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