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Parents Less Likely to Take Girls Outside to Play
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Parents Less Likely to Take Girls Outside to Play

April 5, 2012

Preschool girls are 16% less likely than boys their age to be taken outside by their parents to play.

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Is Your Backyard Thunderdome or M.I.T.?
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Is Your Backyard Thunderdome or M.I.T.?

February 7, 2012

It was like Mad Max for the elementary school set: “Two men enter. One man leaves.”

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Do We Really Need to Teach Kids to Play? Maybe in the Play Deserts.
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Do We Really Need to Teach Kids to Play? Maybe in the Play Deserts.

April 22, 2011

As the herd of boys ran past my window again, I wondered, Do kids really need to learn how to play?

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If You Build it, They Will Color it.

June 1, 2010

I’d set up this play-hut from KidsCraft at our community lake, and announced to the children on the beach that it was theirs to play in and to color.

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Why Do Our Children Need a Recess Coach?

March 15, 2010

I’ve said it before: Kids don’t need to be taught how to play. But quite a few educators across the country apparently feel otherwise.

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Do We Really Need to Teach Kids How to Play?

February 16, 2010

As the herd of boys ran past my window again, I wondered, Do kids really need to learn how to play?

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Wordless Wednesday — Snowmeggedon Style

February 10, 2010

Wordless Wednesday, from the Blizzard of 2010 II

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