Learning Through Play - Parent's Articles
Effort to Restore Children’s Play Gains Momentum
Parents are embracing a growing movement to restore the business of play to the lives of children - NY Times...more
A Box? Or a Spaceship? What Makes Kids Creative
Creativity in American kids is rapidly declining as rote learning and testing crowd out less structured academic activities....more
Want to get your kids into college? Let them play
Want to get your kids into college? Experts say, "Let them play!"...more
Why Preschool Shouldn't Be Like School
New research shows that teaching kids more and more, at ever-younger ages, may backfire....more
The Four Secrets of Playtime That Foster Creative Kids
Our world is increasingly filled with play that makes kids passive consumers instead of active creators. Here's how we can change that....more
The Case for Play: How a handful of researchers are trying to save childhood.
Researchers explore the critical need to embrace and protect our kids' access to authentic, unstructured play experiences....more
The Creativity Crisis
The Creativity Crisis: For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it....more
Let the Children Play (Some More)
Research suggests play has long term positive effects into adulthood, and it’s crucial that”goof-off time” not be limited to summer vacation....more
The 3 R’s? A Fourth Is Crucial, Too: Recess
New research suggests that unstructured play time may be as important to a child’s academic experience as reading, science and math....more
Studying Young Minds, and How to Teach Them
New research in cognitive neuroscience helps clarify when young brains are best able to grasp fundamental mathematical concepts....more
A Creative Mom Uses 36 Cube to Build Early Math Skills!
A creative mom took “The World’s Most Challenging Puzzle” and made it an age-appropriate math challenge for her young learner!...more
The Importance of Play in the Homeschool Curriculum
If you’re a fan of ThinkFun, you know that they create their fantastic games with the belief that children learn best while at play....more
Board games teach life’s important lessons
The Board Game Family shares critical life lessons kids learn by playing games ...more
