{"id":211,"date":"2007-10-08T14:08:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T14:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2007-11-05T14:24:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T14:24:38","slug":"play-is-critical-to-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/play-is-critical-to-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Play is critical to development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The UK school grounds charity, Learning Through Landscapes, commenting on a poll of 1,146 children <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supergrounds.com\/\">sponsored by RBS<\/a>, suggests children engage in bullying and negative behaviour because they are bored.\u00a0 Although almost all (93%) enjoyed playtimes, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/education\/7033810.stm\">one in four had been bullied in the playground<\/a> while one in six got bored.\u00a0 They suggest a solution would be to engage them in more stimulating play.<\/p>\n<p>Most parents agree that the school playground had a lasting influence on their own personal development, but one in five parents said there was a lack of sporting facilities to keep children active and engaged and a quarter wanted to see more seating areas which encouraged social interaction.\u00a0 This survey also fond that parents think that schools do not allow children to experience &#8220;good old fashioned fun&#8221; in the playground, with 57% agreeing that children were &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=44\">too wrapped up in cotton wool<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The general message is that emotional development requires stimulating, experiential learning and play, and this should occur in early years, while cognitive intelligences may be emphasised in teen years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK school grounds charity, Learning Through Landscapes, commenting on a poll of 1,146 children sponsored by RBS, suggests children engage in bullying and negative behaviour because they are bored.\u00a0 Although almost all (93%) enjoyed playtimes, one in four had been bullied in the playground while one in six got bored.\u00a0 They suggest a solution &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/play-is-critical-to-development\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Play is critical to development<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-3p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}