A Sydney playground was closed earlier this year after children and adults suffered a spate of injuries including broken bones, burns and bruises on a giant tube-slide. The Hilltop Playground had been open for less than one ...
Oct 29, 2018
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Elementary school students who received child-centered play therapy services over the course of a school year showed significant positive changes, according to data collected from a research study by two University of Arkansas ...
Oct 11, 2018
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(HealthDay)—Pediatricians should encourage parents to ensure their children play, according to a clinical report published in the September issue of Pediatrics.
Sep 13, 2018
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Parents who positively engage with their children during play time—and gently steer them to clean up afterward—may help toddlers with low-self regulation have lower body mass indexes (BMIs) later on as preschoolers.
Aug 23, 2018
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(HealthDay)—Play is a child's most important work, preschool teachers like to say, and a new American Academy of Pediatrics report wholeheartedly agrees.
Aug 21, 2018
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Imagine a drug that could enhance a child's creativity, critical thinking and resilience. Imagine that this drug were simple to make, safe to take, and could be had for free.
Aug 20, 2018
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It's 4pm on a Thursday, and your child is on the couch with the iPad. You need to leave for the weekly music lesson in half an hour. You can see dust has gathered on the piano (or the flute or the saxophone), and another ...
Aug 6, 2018
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Are children's busy schedules depriving them of their childhood and the ability to play freely? Not really, says a U of T study.
Jul 13, 2018
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As we age, most people slow down a bit to protect themselves from injury. Turns out, that may be the opposite of what they should do.
Apr 20, 2018
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Playing violent action adventure games for prolonged periods does not make adults more aggressive say researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany. ...
Mar 14, 2018
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