Free the Children. Andrea Gordon.
by Gordon, Andrea; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 36Family. Publisher: Toronto Star, 2004ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Children -- Canada | Children -- Time management | Creative ability in children | Leisure | PlayDDC classification: 050 Summary: "While organized sports and lessons have become a trademark of middle-class childhood, it's the freewheeling stuff that most child development experts, psychologists and educators yearn to see. They say spontaneous play, whether alone, in a playground or lying on a bedroom floor, is the breeding ground for imagination and creativity. But the lack of unstructured time to engage in it may be one of the most telling features of childhood today." (TORONTO STAR) The author notes that "in the quest to develop well-rounded citizens prepared to handle whatever the future throws at them, adults have created a situation in which free play time appears to have gone the way of the pogo stick" and "the paradox is that in depriving kids of spontaneous play, we short-change them by not giving them the opportunity to develop creativity that will help them compete as adults."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005.
Originally Published: Free the Children, June 12, 2004; pp. L1+.
"While organized sports and lessons have become a trademark of middle-class childhood, it's the freewheeling stuff that most child development experts, psychologists and educators yearn to see. They say spontaneous play, whether alone, in a playground or lying on a bedroom floor, is the breeding ground for imagination and creativity. But the lack of unstructured time to engage in it may be one of the most telling features of childhood today." (TORONTO STAR) The author notes that "in the quest to develop well-rounded citizens prepared to handle whatever the future throws at them, adults have created a situation in which free play time appears to have gone the way of the pogo stick" and "the paradox is that in depriving kids of spontaneous play, we short-change them by not giving them the opportunity to develop creativity that will help them compete as adults."
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