Check out this TED talk by Tim Brown about Creativity and Play.
Raising Moral and Happy Children
This is a great video by Richard Weissbourd about raising moral and happy children through play.
Steve Gross on Joy
Check out this video by Steve Gross, the director of the Life is Good Kids Foundation. He is discussing the importance of Joy and as Aristotle says, like should be lived as play.
Steve Gross: Joy from BrightSightGroup on Vimeo.
Play and Learning
Here’s a great video by Laura Shulz about play and learning.
The Importance of Play
Here’s an excellent video about the important of play by Professor Karen Hutchinson.
Prescription for Play
Here’s a great video featuring Ken Ginsburg on the Prescription for Play.
Language Develops through Play
Here’s a great video by Betty Bardige about how language develops in infants through the power of play.
Bev Bos and What a Preschool Should Be
This is a great interview with Bev Bos, one of the nation’s foremost experts on preschool learning. The principles she discusses–wonder, self-discovery, and tangible experience–are the basics we encourage at In a Child’s Path.
Bev Bos on Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resoltuion by Bev Bos
“The most important thing to remember about discipline for young children is that it needs to be kind, tender and humane. And so often it is not. Why are adults so afraid of being kind when disciplining? I think there are lots of reasons: one reason stems from how we were disciplined as children. In a tense moment we often go back to how we were raised even if we resented how we were treated. Fear, also, keeps us from being kind and tender because we are so afraid that our child will become a rude, hurtful, out of control adult. Sometimes we just don’t know a better way.”
Reasons for Recess
While our society develops, spending more time on computers and indoors meeting math and reading standards, our children still have the need for sun and wind, and outside play. There are so many reasons for outdoor play, including:
- Children learn at young ages when their whole body is involved, which is best accomplished through play
- Play allows children the opportunity to relax without interruptions from from adults
- Children work out emotions through unstructured play
- Children develop skills from empathetic play, including cooperation, helping, sharing, and problem solving
- Outdoor play encourages the use of all senses, not just touch and site, like books and computers do
- Children learn to navigate safely through their environment when they are allowed outdoor play
Recess and the Importance of Play
National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education
Recess and the Importance of Play highlights the significance of play in development.