The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/119/1/182 Author(s): Kenneth Ginsburg Summary: “Play is essential to development because it contributes to the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being of children and youth. Play also offers an ideal opportunity for parents to engage fully with their children. Despite the benefits derived from play for both children and parents, time for free play has…

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Scientists Say Child’s Play Helps Build A Better Brain

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/08/06/336361277/scientists-say-childs-play-helps-build-a-better-brain NPR Morning Edition, Jon Hamilton Summary “The experience of play changes the connections of the neurons at the front end of your brain, [sic] And without play experience, those neurons aren’t changed.” It is those changes in the prefrontal cortex during childhood that help wire up the brain’s executive control center [sic]. But to…

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