How to Encourage Your Kids to Play Outdoors

How to Encourage Your Kids to Play Outdoors

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Remember when we talked about why play is important for kids? If you don’t, that’s okay! The American Academy of Pediatrics says that: Playing is an effective way for children to learn how to work together in groups, to give and take, and to resolve conflicts. Free play also encourages decision making, an essential life skill. Even though it may not seem like it, kids really do learn a lot through playing. And for kids, playing really is serious business. With the warmer weather hopefully settling in here in New York, I’m hoping to get my kids outdoors more to play. Doctors, educators, and experts in childcare believe modern changing lifestyles have a negative effect on the health and wellbeing of children. Children and youth…

Why Free Play Is Important for Kids

Why Free Play Is Important for Kids

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How often, as a child, did you play outside? Whether it was in your front yard, back yard, local playground, neighbor’s house, recess, etc… how often did you get outside and play? For that matter, how many times did you just play inside? For many of us, we did this almost every day. Free play was, and still is, very important for kids. And today, we’re going to talk about why free play is important for kids. And, just in case your kids aren’t getting as much free play as they should, we’ll talk about a few ways to get more free play into their day. [clickToTweet tweet=”Playing is serious business for kids, let them play. #kbnmoms #learnthroughplay” quote=”Kids learn through playing. Let them play…