Links & Books
Recommended Reading
Support Your Child’s Learning During the Holidays! | NAEYC
Why adults have to stop trying so darn hard to control how children play | Washington Post
Encouraging Independent Play in Toddlers | Peaceful Parents, Confident Kids
Other Reference Materials
Building “Generation Play”: Addressing the Crisis of Inactivity Among America’s Children
A Report by Stanford University [PDF]
The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds by Kenneth R. Ginsburg, MD, MSEd, and the Committee on Communications and the Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health (report for the American Academy of Pediatrics)
The Partnership for Play Every Day – http://www.playeveryday.org/
Play: Essential for All Children A Position Paper of the Association for Childhood Education International by Joan Packer Isenberg & Nancy Quisenberry [DOC]
Stuart Brown, Director of the National Institute of Play, On Being – http://www.onbeing.org/program/play-spirit-and-character/143/ [Audio]
Children’s Play and Learning: Perspectives and Policy Implications by Edgar Klugman and Sara Smilansky, ISBN 0807730327
The Power of Play: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children by David Elkind, IBSN 0738210536