“Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual
understanding.” Maria Montessori
“To assist a child we
must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.”
Maria Montessori
“The child can
develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such
experiences ‘work’.” Maria Montessori
My parents and siblings all supported and still do support
play. As a child I was encouraged to go
outside to play every day. My father
would sit outside and watch us as we played and taught me how to ride a bike
with and without training wheels. Today
my siblings and I still play through having game nights weekly and include our
children in the activities.
Play to is different for many today than it was when I was a
child. When I was a child children were
outside riding bikes and playing various games with friends. And it was done without a fear or thought of
danger from being shot or any other criminal activity. Today children are consumed with video games
and little to no physical activity. Or
there is so much violence in the streets that parents fear to let their
children outside to play or children are being shot, abducted or hurt when they
are outside or playing with friends whether they are outside their house, at
the park, or at any function.
References
Daily Montessori . (2011). Quotes by Maria Montessori. Retrieved from www.dailymontessori.com/maria-montessori-quotes/
NFL Play 60. (2012). NFL
Play 60: The NFL Movement for an Active Generation. Retrieved from www.nfl.com/play60
Hi Quandra,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your post and thanks for sharing a piece of your life. I agree that children spend to much time in front of the television. Beautiful days are for playing outside, rainy days for playing board games and family time inside. However there is the concern of violence in the neighborhoods. It isn't fair for children or any one to have to be concerned about being shot or harmed when trying to just have a fun time playing outside.
Rosalind
You really had a great post and I can tell that you are an active person and believe in outside physical activity and I admire that. I agree that children today do not have enough physical activity like we used to have growing up. I think that if physical play was used more often then our country's child obesity rate would be much lower.
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