The Importance of Free Play

Check out this article about free play.  It really emphasizes our need, as parents and caregivers, to back-off (way more than we do!) and let children learn through play, as is meant to be.  The learning about real-life, solving problems and adapting to unexpected situations/circumstances are all things that happen during play.  These things NEED to happen in order for children to be able to move into a play of learning later on.

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Why adults have to stop trying so darn hard to control how children play