For Your Binder

A Q/A session with Gever Tulley, co-author of Fifty Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do  # risk # play # DAP # outside # parenting # teaching

Boys were over four times as likely to be expelled as girls, and African-American preschoolers were about twice as likely to be expelled as preschoolers of European descent. Although a pattern of particular risk for expulsion with African-American students has been demonstrated during K-12, the pattern of disparity appears to begin much earlier.  # teaching # learning # equity # implicitbias # expulsion

Our feet were healthier before we started wearing shoes!  # play # risk # outside # movement

Get the bubblewrap!!!!  This list will make your head pop off - but wait, that's probably not safe either.  # play # outside # recess # risk # movement 

We know the many benefits of risky play for young children - but are all children being afforded opportunities to engage in this kind of play? Disabled children tend to be over-protected and have their abilities underestimated. Additionally, "accessibility" is not in itself sufficient to ensure the quality of the play experience.  # inclusion # equity # outside # movement # recess

While having a play deprived childhood isn't going to turn you into a murderer, all of the inmates Brown interviewed had a play deprived childhood.   # play # risk # resilience # teaching # learning # powerplaying # theorists

Bad policy and paranoid parenting are making kids too safe to succeed. # risk # parenting # resilience # play

Unfortunately, “going out to play” has gone the way of the dodo, the typewriter and the eight-track tape.  # outside # play # parenting # risk # resilience 

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Data was collected over a five year span.  Anyone wanna take any guesses? Yup! You guessed it! The adventure playground was statistically safer.  # adventureplaygrounds # playgrounds # play # risk # movement # recess # playwork # outside 

If we don’t allow children the freedom to move their bodies in different ways with simple challenges, how do we expect them to become capable of navigating their environment without getting hurt? Risks and challenges are important for healthy sensory and motor development and this article will assist you in really understanding why!

# play # risk # movement # outside # teaching # learning # DAP

There is some evidence that moral attitudes towards parenting have changed. Example: leaving children unsupervised is now judged as morally "wrong" and, as such, people overestimate the risk associated with it. # risk # play # parenting # outside

Short of cocooning our darlings in bubble wrap, nothing’s going to keep them completely safe. # play # outside # risk # movement # parenting # teaching # playgrounds