The Play's the Thing: Promoting Intellectual and Emotional Development in the Early Childhood Years

The Play's the Thing: Promoting Intellectual and Emotional Development in the Early Childhood Years
ISBN-10
1475869983
ISBN-13
9781475869989
Series
The Play's the Thing
Category
Education
Pages
169
Language
English
Published
2023
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Author
Selma Wassermann

Description

Because unsupervised free play is nature's way of teaching us the skills we need as adults - the skills of cooperation, making and enforcing rules, compromise, negotiating conflicts, accepting defeat, children have been dependent on others to regulate them. More and more they have become "other directed." It is no surprise then that during the days of self-quarantine, when schools, playgrounds and other recreational activities were shut down, children were subject to the emotional stresses of having to find their own way. Their self-direction having had little chance of development failed them when they needed it most. This is a book for teachers and parents as well who seek to develop such self-directed, "can-do" children.

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