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This week an Ottawa school, D. Roy Kennedy Public School, has been in the news and featured on the Free Range Kids blog because a group of students started a petition to reverse a ban on playing with balls at recess in the winter. Students are allowed to run around and play, but they cannot [...]
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As many of you know, the contest for my Carnival of Play is the opportunity to win one of three copies of this book. On this final day of the Carnival, I have just finished reading it and am ready to post my review.
Overview
In his new book Play, Stuart Brown provides an overview of the [...]
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Sarah from Good Enough Mum blog suggested that I write a post about playing with more than one child and also provided me with a great link on the importance of one-on-one play. I thought the two ideas fit together really well, so I decided to combine them in one post.
The importance of one-on-one play
The [...]
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I have a friend that once confided in me that she didn’t like the newborn stage. She found it a bit tough (lack of sleep and stuff) and also just not that exciting. She couldn’t wait until her baby was ready to play. That is when the whole parenting thing became real and fun for [...]
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In his great book Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv talks about saving our children from nature deficit disorder. Children are getting less time outdoors. This is having serious consequences for their physical and mental health, ranging from increased obesity, attention deficit disorder and depression. Our kids need sunlight. They need fresh air. They [...]
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The Ottawa Citizen: Study details the downside to child’s play (February 23, 2009):
Listen up, kids: your teachers are right. Don’t throw snowballs. Don’t run, don’t walk and maybe even stop crawling when you’re around school. You’ll get hurt. More than 4,000 children between the ages of five and 19 were injured in a year in [...]
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If you don’t believe me that play is important, then take it from Olympian Silken Laumann. She has written quite a bit about play, including the two articles that I’m featuring here today. You can read more from her on her Web site: SilkenLaumann.com
This great article called “the power of family play” in Canadian Health [...]
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Time to profile a few more Carnival of Play posts!
Play Day (by TopHat @ the bee in your bonnet)
A child’s job is to play.
That is how TopHat starts out her post and I couldn’t agree more! The rest of her post describes an experiment she conducted just for this carnival (I’m so flattered [...]
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It is Day 3 of the Carnival of Play and already there are tons of great posts that have been contributed. I’ll be featuring them a few at a time.
Let’s Pretend (by Amber @ Strocel)
Amber wrote a great post about the importance of imaginative play for her daughter’s development and their communication. Amber says:
As an [...]
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