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Ellie LOVES to play outside - she kicks and screams to come in the house - occasionally a popsicle can be used to lure her inside.

Is it important to play? Sure!!

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning. -Fred Rogers

It is in playing, and only in playing, that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self. -  D.W. Winnicott, British pediatrician

Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.
Diane Ackerman, Contemporary American author

 A child loves his play, not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard.

Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician

Play is training for the unexpected -
Marc Bekoff, Contemporary American biologist

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation -Plato

 

People tend to forget that play is serious.

 Almost all creativity involves purposeful play -
Abraham Maslow, American psychologist-

Pausing to listen to an airplane in the sky, stooping to watch a ladybug on a plant, sitting on a rock to watch the waves crash over the quayside—children have their own agendas and timescales. As they find out more about their world and their place in it; they work hard not to let adults hurry them. We need to hear their voices.

Cathy Nutbrown, Contemporary British educational theorist