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Play |
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Drawing by Dee Schulte |
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All Play |
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Tanger Fields |
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Everyone Plays |
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Tanger Fields: Therapeutic, Educational, Accessible, Recreational Fun for All Children |
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“Sensory integration describes how we receive and organize information from the environment as well as from our own bodies.” Melanie Schepers & Jeryl Benson
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Sensory Integration & Learning |
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Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.Diane Ackerman Play, while it cannot change the external realities of children’s lives, can be a vehicle for children to explore and enjoy their differences and similarities and to create, even for a brief time, a more just world where everyone is an equal and valued participant. Patricia G. Ramsey
In our play we reveal what kind of people we are. Whoever wants to understand much must play much. Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold. Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning. A child loves his play, not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard. Play fosters belonging and encourages cooperation. To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well. Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity. Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression. Play is training for the unexpected. Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn. Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. Children have always learned and created places for themselves through play. Play allows us to develop alternatives to violence and despair; it helps us learn perseverance and gain optimism. It is in playing, and only in playing, that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self. The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. Pausing to listen to an airplane in the sky, stooping to watch a ladybug on a plant, sitting on a rock to watch the waves crash over the quayside – children have their own agendas and timescales. As they find out more about their world and their place in it; they work hard not to let adults hurry them. We need to hear their voices. Cathy Nutbrown
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Importance of Play |
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The need a child has to play and their need to play with friends
is not as strong as the needs of adults to provide children with a place to play, a place to play with friends,
a place to learn, a place to sleep, a place to dream sweet dreams, a place to live well.
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