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Five Proven Benefits Of Play (US)

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Date: 31 Aug 2018 | by: Anya Kamenetz | Story Source: NPR/ KQED Mindshift ~ Go to Original Article

It may be a new school year, yet I come to sing the praises of trampolines and bubble-blowing, pillow forts and peekaboo, Monopoly and Marco Polo.

A new paper in the journal Pediatrics summarizes the evidence for letting kids let loose. “Play is not frivolous,” the paper insists, twice. “It is brain building.” The authors — Michael Yogman, Andrew Garner, Jeffrey Hutchinson, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff — ask pediatricians to take an active role by writing a “prescription for play” for their young patients in the first two years of life.

“Play is disappearing,” says Hirsh-Pasek, a developmental psychologist who is…

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