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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Let them eat dirt! Our obsession with hygiene is jeopardising our children’s health
30 May 2016
It’s a nerve-wrecking time to be a parent. Every week, mothers are chastised…
Read more »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 »Children’s Right to Play and the Environment
25 May 2016
(18 May 2016) The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, 2016…
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 »Experts warn children’s eyesight ‘ruined’ by life indoors
11 May 2016
There is to be a “myopic boom” among Scottish children due to less…
Read more »Education needs a Lego moment – more fun and fewer pointless targets
6 May 2016
Nothing is as much fun as it used to be. That’s the first…
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 is not just for kids ….
5 May 2016
Cities around the world have been designing outdoor gyms and play areas for…
Read more »20 traditional games Scottish people played in their childhood
3 May 2016
Take a trip down memory lane as we look back on some favourite…
Read more »Play Scotland Research – Can you help?
11 April 2016
Do you have a child 8 – 12 years old and live in…
Read more »When Kids Create Their Own Playground
8 April 2016
In urban waste-material adventure playgrounds, children can build, climb, graffiti, and create. Full…
Read more »Walk to School Week, Living Streets, 16 – 20 May 2016
5 April 2016
Take part in Strider’s Walk in the Wild – a five-day challenge that…
Read more »Coping with risk and danger should be part of curriculum – HSE chair
1 April 2016
Coping with risk and danger is crucial to a child’s education and should…
Read more »My World Outdoors
31 March 2016
There is significant and growing interest in how children and young people access…
Read more »Parents’ low expectations ‘condemning toddlers to a life of underachievement’
30 March 2016
Save The Children study warns half of parents missing out of ‘light bulb’…
Read more »Children spend less time outside than average pensioner
22 March 2016
They should be spending their childhood enjoying exciting adventures outdoors – climbing trees,…
Read more »Attitude shift needed to encourage outdoor play
15 March 2016
Outdoor nurseries are giving children better learning outcomes, according to new Care Inspectorate…
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