Blog Tag: play

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The risk of not letting our children take risks

Lenore Skenazy, author of Free Range Kids, has been fighting against laws in the US ...

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Why won’t my kids play outside?

It must be annoying for many parents today who hear stories from older folk like ...

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Save your cash & pull out the pegs

Babies and toddlers are learning constantly from everything they see, hear, taste, touch and smell ...

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Healing our profound wound of human disconnectedness

The latest suicide figures from the ABS are alarming, worrying and hide a world full ...

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The Importance of Bare Feet

Surely one of the cutest parts of newborn babies is their feet. They are like ...

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How Risk Can Benefit Children

In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie talks about how as a society we can tend to ...

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Why iPad playgrounds are a bad idea for shops and kids

Can modern childhood get any more weird? In my travels I have found the folks ...

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The shift back to nature play – it’s happening!

Many of you know of my passionate commitment to outside play in our homes, schools ...

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Are we about to ban childhood altogether?

As a passionate advocate for allowing children a childhood that allows them to play as ...

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Getting Kids Active

In a world where screens seem to dominate, statistics for Australian kids around activity levels are ...

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In praise of a dangerous, dirty childhood

Originally published in Parenting Ideas. I think there is something missing from the average modern ...

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Q&A webinar with parents – 3/02/2014

In this 1 hour recording of a live webinar Q&A conducted between Maggie and a ...

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The dirty secret about raising kids: It’s child’s play

I am going to let you in on a little secret about raising children. It’s ...