Play is an important part of children’s learning and development. Find articles on how to intentionally connect play and learning, ideas to share with families, and the latest research about learning and play.
- Big Body Play – Free epub except Dec 2019
As this chapter explains, play results in wonderful benefits across physical, social-emotional, and cognitive domains. It enhances problem-solving skills, creativity, and the ability to take another’s perspective; reduces misbehavior; enhances language skills; and improves cognitive performance and social-emotional capacities (e.g., Barros et al. 2009; Singer et al. 2006). This chapter describes some of the benefits—both those unique to big body play (especially its roughand-tumble forms) and those overlapping with the more generally acceptable forms of play such as sociodramatic. - 10 Things Every Parent Should Know About Play