#UnstructuredPlay #EmotionalRegulation #1970sResilience
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🚨Kids have lost 12 hours of free play per week since 1981 & gained anxiety in return. We're so busy enriching childhood, we're impoverishing it. New article on why boredom beats busy🧵👇
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#UnstructuredPlay #PlayCrisis #CreativeKids #ParentingReality #FamilyTime
Try this simple challenge: Swap a screen time moment for 10 minutes of unstructured play with your child today. Unplanned play fosters creativity and deeper parent-child bonding. 🎲🌈🤸♂️
#Playtime #CreativeKids #FamilyTime #ParentingHacks #UnstructuredPlay
We value play that is self chosen, meaningful and unstructured
‘…what flows through your
mind changes your brain.’
(Rick Hanson)
#UnstructuredPlay #SelfChosenJoy #MeaningfulMoments 🌈
Future that all parents should want? It would provide them with more free time. As kids, especially during the summer, we used to head out the door in the morning, stop back by for a quick lunch, and back home when it was getting dark outside. #UnstructuredPlay #RiskyPlay #IndependentMobility
There are great efforts going on across America to introduce all ages/abilities to biking. A great model is what @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social and others are promoting, which is get kids off social media, give them more time for #UnstructuredPlay, and support their #IndependentMobility #Independence
Join YABC for an #authorchat with Gaia Cornwall about #newrelease #kidlit FAIRY WALK! Plus #entertowin a #freecopy in our #giveaway!
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#nature #fairy #unstructuredplay