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
It’s OK Not to Share…and other renegade rules for raising competent and compassionate kids by Heather Shumaker
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