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"It is harder to work out at nightwe have social engagements,
That makes sense,new balance minimus italia, Panama,anelli paraolio, Paddling She lives in Northern California. Money,offerte jordan,D. in the American Journal of Play childrens play time fell by 25 percent from 1981 to 1997; outdoor play has plunged by 50 percent with kids today spending a mere 4-7 minutes per day goofing off outdoors Photo: Katie Arnold Plenty of factors have conspired to take the fun out of childhood As more children are raised in two-income households middle-class kids have become increasingly regimented with sports and after-school activities Competitive school sports have become default babysitters just as theyve become lucrative businesses Concerned that their children will fall behind in school and competitive sports and worried about their safety when theyre on the loose outside parents have unwittingly reigned in the creative and physical freedom children so desperately need Rare are the kids who can wander down the block by themselves or walk home from school with their friends a prime time for impromptu play thats vanishing from childrens lives
All this to our childrens great detriment In his research Gray posits that children who dont play are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression; childhood obesity and diagnoses of attention-deficit disorders are on the rise Play teaches children how to work together and mature into more socially well-adjusted adults; it has also been proven to build better brain function and improves academic performance Dr Stuart Brown a psychiatrist and clinical researcher who founded the National Institute for Play calls play "a fundamental survival aspect of all social animals" Through his research of homicidal males in the 1960s he found that a lack of "normal give-and-take play behaviors" may even be an indicator for mass violence
This includes what Brown calls "rough-and-tumble play"the hitting tackling screaming physical rowdiness that parents have been taught to discourage but which Brown contends is actually a healthy outlet because it teaches limits and empathy The 2011 book The Art of Roughhousing draws on decades of research supporting the perks of horseplay Rowdy social interaction builds resilience encourages problem-solving and triggers feelings of true joy according to authors Anthony DeBenedet and Lawrence Cohen whose website offers suggestions for popular parent-child roughhousing moves (think pillow fights and airplane) As kids in the late 70s my sister and I made up an exciting and terrifying game that our dad called Morsel in which hed lie flat on the ground and try to grab us while we ran in frantic panicky circles around him The thrill of the chase in action
The science of roughhousing makes me feel better about the times when six-year-old Pippa clocks her four-year-old sister and chases her around the room both shrieking with equal parts delight and possibly horror but Im still happier when they play nicely together One blowy afternoon at the lake they built sailboats using a cache of small square wooden boards I fished out of the kindling box Each had been cut with a round depression in the middle about the diameter of a candlesjust the right size for a toy mast Im not a crafty person and the last time I made anything by hand might have been a summer day on the same island some 30 years ago when in a fit of desperate boredom my sisters and I hammered together our own wooden sailboats Photo: Katie Arnold The girls thought it was the greatest idea ever invented They raced barefoot into the meadow to scavenge for sticks thick ones for the mast and skinnier ones for the boom With my husband Steves help they whittled the sticks to fit into the holes and used a hammer to nail them partway into the blocks; an old cotton rag which I cut into a triangle became the sail Wielding a needle and thread six-year-old Pippa sewed the bottom of her sail around the boom and tied it with twine to the mast
Once the boats were seemingly seaworthy we trekked over to the leeward side of the island for an impromptu homemade sailboat regatta At Flat Rock a long slab of granite that slopes gently into the lake Pippa waded in and launched her sloop which sailed downwind with the eerie precision of a remote controlled boat Maisys dingy whose mainsail was fashioned from a Tropicana orange juice container cut in half bobbed awkwardly and then promptly tipped over No big deal The girls spent an hour sloshing around in the lapping lake pushing their boats with sticks and watching how the wind caught the sails until eventually it was time to go home for dinner
And this was just the beginning of their summer of outdoor play They hunted grasshoppers and tu
