"These are the things I know about children, voice, and what happens when you stop correcting. Start anywhere. Everything here is for you."
UNICEF confirms what children already know. Play is not a reward. It is how children build confidence, process emotions, and discover what they are capable of.
We tell children their voice matters. Then we fill every hour of their day with our agenda and wonder why they have nothing left to say.
Play is one of the first languages through which children tell their stories. We have been taking it away without asking what we are taking with it.
Between 1995 and 2019 breaktime in UK primary schools was cut by 45 minutes every week. What was cut with it.
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