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23.01.2022 30 very powerful reasons why play benefits children.

22.01.2022 From @thepointpreschool "We have an amazing surprise to tell you all about. Over the last 3 weeks our outdoor learning environment has been renovated by the amazing team from Jamie Miller Landscapes Our new learning space continues to reflect our deep respect of the land and nature and our commitment play outdoors.... Last year to honour the rights of our children and our responsibility to listen deeply to their voices, we asked them what they would love to see in our new playground. We have included as many of their suggestions as possible and our playground looks amazing. Thank you to the wonderful Tess, from Tessa Rose Natural Playspaces for respecting our children's wishes. Although our space couldn't accommodate the 100 slides that the children requested, Tess was able to find room for 2 new slides. And to honour the history of the preschool we re-purposed some timber from our old climbing frame; re-used our old tunnel - painting it green and incorporating it into our new climbing equipment; re-positioned our hand made stepping stones and re-planted some of our plants in the new garden. We love everything about our new outdoor learning environment. Now we are ready to build our new atelier and welcome our beautiful chicken Vanilla Bean back to our place. A special thank you to Libby for taking Vanilla Bean home to her home for the past 3 weeks. We know she has loved spending time at your Como Luxury Resort for Lovely Chickens Thank you to all our families and friends who have supported our fundraising and to the Department of Education for the grants that have enabled us to make our playground dreams possible." #takeastepoutsideyourdoor #weloveoutdoors #nature #rightsofthechild #honourhistory #thankyou #gratitude

21.01.2022 People can be more than one thing....or stereotype.

20.01.2022 I dont buy the argument that the screens are keeping the kids from the playgrounds, said Susan Solomon, an architectural historian and the author of American Playgrounds. If the playgrounds were better, kids would be there. Better playgrounds would definitely give screens a run for their money.

19.01.2022 "This is the first study to document associations between higher screen use and lower measures of brain structure and skills in preschool-aged kids," said lead author Dr. John Hutton, a pediatrician and clinical researcher at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. The study was published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. "This is important because the brain is developing the most rapidly in the first five years," Hutton said. "That's when brains are very plastic and soaking up everything, forming these strong connections that last for life."

18.01.2022 Love this. For me it is and always has been about the connection and treasured shared experience.

17.01.2022 I'm in two minds about this site, initially I feel concerned that outside play has been demonised to the point where such a site is required, on the other hand I'm happy that such a site exists if it fulfils its stated purpose which is ..."Outside Play is an online tool to help parents and caregivers gain the confidence to allow their kids engage in more outdoor play."

17.01.2022 Thanks to Children's Ground for sharing with with us.

17.01.2022 Love to hear your opinions.

14.01.2022 Nature has so much to fascinate, stimulate and delight children.

14.01.2022 Jonathan Haidt argues that we are not giving children the chance to play outside. He notes that todays children on average only first play outside unsupervised from the age of 10 to 12, where for us it was more like five or six. This is in a time where society is by all accounts safer than it ever has been. What began as legitimate safety concerns in the 1990s has led to a situation where even if parents intellectually supported free play, no one wants to be the first parent... to let their kid bike ride to the grocery store and buy some milk, lest they are judged. Haidt also argues that children are not given the opportunity to take risks, which means they have very little understanding of their own safety, and can often take too great a risk, or too few risks, as adults. He calls this the myth of fragility and instead argues that failing in life, whether its on the monkey bars or on the jungle gym, will make us stronger, not weaker. Haidt says this myth has led to the rise of university students requiring safe spaces because they cant regulate their own safety. See more

14.01.2022 "When children give themselves over to their play, and specifically unstructured play, they move as a river does, as the heart does, moment-to-moment, fluid and free. It is within this natural state that they stay connected to their inner whispers and nudges, the ancient impulses of life that breathe into their hand as they doodle, into their thoughts as they imagine, into their feelings as they emote, into their movements as they spiral."

13.01.2022 Bluey is an inexhaustible six year-old Blue Heeler dog, who loves to play and turns everyday family life into extraordinary adventures, developing her imagination as well as her mental, physical and emotional resilience.

13.01.2022 "Clearly, nature calls to something very deep in us. Biophilia, the love of nature and living things, is an essential part of the human condition. Hortophilia, the desire to interact with, manage, and tend nature, is also deeply instilled in us. The role that nature plays in health and healing becomes even more critical for people working long days in windowless offices, for those living in city neighborhoods without access to green spaces, for children in city schools, or for those in institutional settings such as nursing homes. The effects of natures qualities on health are not only spiritual and emotional but physical and neurological. I have no doubt that they reflect deep changes in the brains physiology, and perhaps even its structure."

12.01.2022 This is tough for me sometimes. Thanks Backwoods Mama

12.01.2022 Ms Sanders notes that many children coming into the classroom today have had tech devices since infancy and were "handed an iPad when they were making noise as a young child. They're constantly consuming for entertainment. But they're not creating. Vocabulary has definitely decreased and spelling is quite atrocious," she said.

11.01.2022 ''The other day I read an article that literally made me cry. I thought I’d heard it all when it came to the lack of movement in children’s lives, but this piece alerted me to something I hadn’t come across before: children are falling out of their chairs because they’re not moving enough. Is this an unusual occurrence? Sadly, no. One first-grade teacher reported that she took a tally, and in one week her students fell from their chairs 44 times. Forty-four times! How is this possible? What the heck is going on? Well, it turns out that today’s children have proprioceptive and vestibular systems so undeveloped that, as the previously mentioned teacher described, it’s like having penguins trying to sit in chairs. A funny image but a not-so-funny situation.''

11.01.2022 Via Marc Armitage at Play PHOTOS: PLAYING YESTERDAY #play #playing #photos #history... Some seriously fascinating photos of playing in the past. So many of these rang true to me, I could almost see myself in many of them. Its also a good remember that its not so long ago life in the UK was tough for many people, yet here we are. Enjoy. DO YOU HAVE a favourite? Any of these ring bells for you? Thanks to my mate Chris for these. https://www.facebook.com/groups/926600164365509/permalink/928327080859484?sfns=mo

10.01.2022 I was at a centre once and a child came up to me eager to tell me his newest joke. "Whats long brown and sticky" he said with a grin. "A stick of course!". Down through the ages this has been the number one utilitarian and imaginative toy amongst children (and adults).

10.01.2022 If only Australia practised a similar learning system

09.01.2022 "A school atmosphere in which pretend games are encouraged, or even just tolerated in the curriculum or recess play of children has also been shown to lead to even greater amounts of imaginativeness and enhanced curiosity, and to learning skills in preschoolers or early school-agers (Ashiabi , 2007; Singer and Lythcott 2004) . Indeed, educators are using pretend games to teach math and reading (Clements, & Sarama, 2009; Ginsburg, 2006)."

09.01.2022 Theres no such thing as a bad kid.

06.01.2022 Agree thoroughly. Via Tom Hobson "When it comes to education, play is enough: it contains within it all the important questions and answers. We don't need adults commanding, coaxing, coaching, or cajoling the children in order for it to be purposeful. When I hear people use the phrase "play with a purpose" (or something similar) I cringe because no matter how well intended, I know that these are people who don't trust the children's natural instincts and so feel compelled, however gently, to turn their self-directed learning into yet another adult-directed activity that may or may not lead children to answers that are important to them."

05.01.2022 ''The other day I read an article that literally made me cry. I thought Id heard it all when it came to the lack of movement in childrens lives, but this piece alerted me to something I hadnt come across before: children are falling out of their chairs because theyre not moving enough. Is this an unusual occurrence? Sadly, no. One first-grade teacher reported that she took a tally, and in one week her students fell from their chairs 44 times. Forty-four times! How is this possible? What the heck is going on? Well, it turns out that todays children have proprioceptive and vestibular systems so undeveloped that, as the previously mentioned teacher described, its like having penguins trying to sit in chairs. A funny image but a not-so-funny situation.''

05.01.2022 Our environment continues to be designed around private air conditioning, and our use of public open space has declined dramatically, says Dr Abby Mellick-Lopes of the University of Western Sydneys School of Humanities and Communication Arts. I was shocked to discover were now indoors for so much of our time, which obviously has impacts on our health and well being. We need to find better ways of using public open space, or the commons, and we only have a short time to do something before the use declines still further.

05.01.2022 Thanks to Niki Willows - Outside for bringing this new resource to my attention. I know from conversations and comments there are a huge number of loose parts play advocates out there. Enjoy! - "We are pleased to announce the publication of the revised edition of the Loose Parts Play Toolkit. The updated Toolkit provides a greater focus on helping adults develop the skills to support inclusive, all-weather outdoor play in Scotland and encourage them to allow children to play in a less structured and more imaginative manner.

04.01.2022 Yep! This is not my photo - when I shared it from a post on my timeline from years ago - I thought it had the posters logo on. Will try and re-find it!

04.01.2022 "The need to compare childcare workers to a male-dominated profession involving work of equivalent value to prove they are underpaid has contributed to the gender pay gap and should be abolished, according to the union movement and academics."

02.01.2022 If you're in the north of Australia or Northern Queensland and your childcare centre suffered inundation in the recent floods there is a possiblility of melioidosis. For more information about melioidosis, what it is and what you can do to avoid it, I have linked a past post below know.https://tessaroselandscapes.com.au//the-unholy-trio-of-th/

01.01.2022 Theres a lot of evidence now that nature has an effect on us when it comes to stress regulation, Lindheim says. We can see the body calms when its in nature versus the built environment. This is especially true for children.

01.01.2022 Providing we have forests left to wander through.