by pllanadmin | Jan 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
from WHYY by Shirley Min Regular conversations between parents and their kids are key for a child’s development. Knowing that, two local professors have teamed up with people around the world to increase conversation, particularly in low-income neighborhoods. They’re...
by sawdbridge | Oct 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
from NPR by Cory Turner and Anya Kamenetz We all want to raise smart, successful kids, so it’s tempting to play Mozart for our babies and run math drills for kindergartners. After all, we need to give them a head start while they’re still little sponges,...
by sawdbridge | Oct 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
from Brookings by Jenny Perlman Robinson Playful Learning Landscapes seeks to transform everyday spaces into playful learning opportunities to maximize “the other 80 percent” of time that children spend outside school. It lies at the intersection of the growing Child...
by sawdbridge | May 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
from Motherly by Heather Marcoux It brings a smile to their faces and ours, while lowering stress and building little brains. Play is such an important part of childhood, but opportunities for play in modern life are shrinking, and the American Academy of Pediatrics...
by sawdbridge | May 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
from Quartz by Annabelle Timsit Seven-year-old Emma McGee used to hate coming to the laundromat. It was boring, and seemed to take forever. In fact she would always ask—unsuccessfully—to stay home with her older brother, Aiden. But things have gotten more interesting...
by sawdbridge | Aug 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
from The Atlantic by Angela Lashbrook “Play has become a four-letter word.” So says Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a psychologist at Temple University and one of the authors of a new paper about the importance of play in children’s lives. The clinical report, published by the...
