CHILD DEVELOPMENT & PLAY

• Play Skills are More Important than You Think!
• Making and Keeping Friends Is More Than Child’s Play by Natalie Walker Whitlock
• How a Child Plays Can Say Volumes about the Child by Karen Minet
• Let the Children Play: Nature’s Answer to Early Learning from the Early Childhood Learning Knowledge Centre
• Developmental Skills That Your Child Develops Through Play by Daniel Dwase
• Stages Of Play During Child Development
• Child’s Play: Getting Your Child To Use Their Imagination by Jill Brennan
• Positive Play - a programme for children with poor social skills
• Top Ten Tips for Buying Toys from the National Lekotek Center
• Child’s Play, Toys as Symbols
• Play and Reality: A Delicate Balance, Parts 1-4
• Guide to Choosing Toddler Toys
• The Effect of Play on Schoolwork by Candace Carlisle, Denton Record-Chronicle
• Helping Your Child Build Healthy Relationships
• Children’s Cliques by Kimberley L. Keith
• Live to Play, Play to Live by Valerie Tate
• 10 Tips to Entertaining Your Toddler by Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D.,
• The 3 R’s? A Fourth is Crucial, Too: Recess by Tara Parker-Pope, New York Times
• School Recess and Group Classroom Behavior by Romina M. Barros, MD, Ellen J. Silver, PhD, and Ruth E. K. Stein, MD
• The Serious Need for Play by Melinda Wenner, Scientific American
• YOUTH FIRST: Enhance Relations with Child Using Play by Davi Stein, Courier Press
• Set the Young Free to Play

• Play Therapy: Playing Attention by Lisa Jewell

• Resilience Matters in Traumatized Children’s Lives—and Sensory Activities Make the Difference by Cathy Malchiodi, Psychology Today

• Top Ten Toys for Developing Fine Motor Skills in Young Children

• Therapist to Parents: Don’t Forget Free Play This Summer

• Can the Right Kinds of Play Teach Self-Control? by Paul Tough, New York Times

• Creating Superboy, Supergirl in Children by Judith Ancer

• Time to play by Carmel Doyle
• The Science of Success by David Dobbs, The Atlantic

• Mom’s time out great benefit to kids, too by Kellie B. Gormly, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

• The State of Play: Gallup Survey of Principles on School Recess (pdf)

• Concerned parents should pencil in time for kids by Beth Gaddis (Tampa, FL)

• Serious Fun by Martha Spizziri

• Kids experiment with ‘video playdates’ by John D. Sutter, CNN News 

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