Playing It Safe
Playgrounds are a daily dose of fun for kids. And whether at school, a public park or at home, playgrounds deliver many benefits to children. Playgrounds promote health and fitness, build healthy bones and muscles, reduce the risk of developing obesity and can even improve a child’s concentration, memory and classroom behavior.
Playgrounds also present a number of visible and hidden risks,...
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Children need play
Unstructured play is not a luxury; it is essential to child development, experts agree. Yet in today’s harried, hurried, overscheduled world, children have less free time than ever, and that has consequences.
Children need to play out relationships and fantasies; that it is how they learn about themselves, says T. Berry Brazelton, the preeminent childhood specialist at Harvard University, in his...
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