Play in Early Childhood: The Role of Play in Any Setting
July 20, 2024
PLAY reduces stress, supports relationships, and develops life skills!
The science of child development points to three core principles that can guide what society needs to do to help children and families thrive. These include:
- Supporting responsive relationships
- Strengthening core life skills
- Reducing sources of stress
Play in early childhood is an effective way of supporting all three of these principles. In this video, learn more about how play can foster children’s resilience to hardship, and how the complex interactions involved when children play help build their brains.
Kids don't get enough opportunities for hands-on, unsupervised free play.
Do you know that play builds brains? We look at research that shows how playful learning experiences lay the foundations for brain development and develops 21st century skills.