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Play

How to Transition From Dependent to Independent Play

Independent play is a skill, not a personality trait. Some children walk into it more easily; all children can build it. The realistic targets, based...

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Play

Why Play Is the Primary Language of Early Childhood

A 2-year-old who can barely string three words together can run a 20-minute pretend hospital. The reason: spoken language is one of the slowest things...

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Play

How Play Needs Change as Children Approach School Age

Play evolves significantly as children move toward school age. What engaged a two-year-old may bore a four-year-old. Understanding how play develops h...

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Daycare

How Children Learn to Play Side by Side and Together

Learning to play with other children is one of the biggest social leaps of the early years — bigger, in many ways, than learning to talk or share. It...

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Daycare

The Role of Free Play in Daycare

When daycare brochures advertise Spanish, music, and STEM blocks, free play often gets pushed to the margins. Yet the American Academy of Pediatrics h...

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