unstructured play

Ottawa school bans balls at recess

January 22, 2010




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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Is unstructured play too dangerous?

April 9, 2009




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 [...]

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Silken Laumann says “Play!”

April 8, 2009




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 [...]

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