need to ensure that children get enough childhood ahead of the teen phase
We need to give children significant opportunity to engage with one another, express themselves and grow the skills that they will need prior to teenagehood. And what is the one key component of this pre-teenage phase? Play. We cannot just give a nod to it while pressing the photocopier button to unleash the next series of worksheets. We cannot just tip Lego in a tray while sitting Red Group at a table to fill out missing words in a cloze sentence. If the child is truly the father of the man and we want to enable this person to be well rounded, loving, able to control him- or herself, collaborate with others, have ambition and, dare I say it, have dreams, then we must embrace the power of play.
Play creates the conditions for children to test the world, to make sense of it, to grow the skills needed to communicate, to negotiate and express their inner selves. And, of course, we’re talking here about Real Play – Real Play that has been enabled by your effective environment and your considered skill-driven continuous provision; Real Play that is accepting of children’s voices and need for freedom to make them heard; and Real Play that is not encumbered by the adult world.
If you know what awaits beyond childhood and if you understand the value of Real Play, then shouldn’t you be exploring every avenue to make this happen? Is it not time to put play at the heart of all you do? Life is too short, dear reader, to do anything else.
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