For Your Binder

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

Her actual paper is available on SAGE (if you have access) and there is a link within the body of this link you do!  This immediate link will bring you to an article where she gives an overview of her findings.  Additionally, she wonders how ECEs view risk taking? Is it limited to risky play? Or perhaps something more??   # risk # play # teaching

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

This is a fantastic SPOT ON 7 minute Ted Talk video with Balanced and Barefoot author, Angela Hanscom, that concisely sums up WHY children need to move and HOW to go about making sure they do! But don't just watch it and agree with it, DO IT! # play # outside # movement # recess # risk # resilience # teaching # learning # nature

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

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 

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

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

We need to re-affirm our commitment to children's play.  Failing to act on these recommendations will allow this generation to become the most sedentary in our nation's history, consequently possibly having a shorter life expectancy than that of their parents. # play # pushdown # movement # recess # risk # outside 

Extreme safety concerns and risk minimization strategies are eroding children's opportunities to engage in developmentally appropriate risk taking. # DAP # teaching # risk # play # outside

From the author: "I felt like a birdwatcher that had spotted a rare species."  How refreshing!  # play # teaching # learning # adventureplaygrounds # outside # nature # playwork # playgrounds # risk

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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