How did YOU play?
What would you trade from your childhood for more screen time? Probably nothing. Learn how you can help your child rediscover the joy of screen-free play by sharing the games you used to play.
Play with Purpose
Play heritage: the hidden foundation of childhood your child is missing
Your own childhood is a living library of play, an apprenticeship in being young. Does your own child have the same rich play vocabulary as you did? Perhaps you could teach her?
The Play Tools: A reset button for play
Does your child ever get distracted? Is she sometimes too agitated to settle? Are there days when you feel like you’re constantly putting out fires, that it’s all tears and no play?
"Don't come in until it's dark."
Do you remember playing outside until it was too dark to see? The way time seemed to stretch endlessly, with no alarms or notifications to pull you away? You’d run, climb, laugh, and invent games with friends, only stopping when the streetlights flickered on or your mum called you