RESOURCES

Our mission is to encourage PLAY and empower both children and their families to incorporate play more organically and freely into their lives. Outlined below are a number of resources we recommend that can help on your journey of PLAY.

Articles written by our founder Beth Wilkins

Has play become extinct? (Pg. 4)

The silver lining (Pg. 8)

Are your child’s sensory needs being met? (Pg. 13)

Sensory Learning: Let kids get messy (Pg. 4)

Social and emotional learning and play (Pg. 5)

Has parenting gotten harder? (Pg. 4)

Executive functioning skills (Pg. 4)

Conflict resolution skills (Pg. 4)

Recommended Books & Videos from other sources

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv

Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children by Angela J. Hanscom

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

TEDTalk by Angela Hanscom: “The REAL reason children fidget — and what we can do about it” from TEDxPortsmouth September 2018 more