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July 29, 2010
Laugh at yourself and children will learn to laugh at their own mistakes. A role model is a very powerful thing.
-Gigi Taylor Schweikert from her book, Teacher Tips
When new parents arrive at Day Schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma, owner Laura Briley provides them with a copy of the New Zealand publication, Dance with Me in the Heart by Pennie Brownlee, to help them create a great experience for the new addition to their family. In the book, Brownlee talks about the importance of play:
"Next to being loved and nurtured, play is the most important thing in the baby's world. Play is the generic intelligence; it is the activity that opens the files of all other intelligences. Play for your baby means being free to move in her body because moving is playing for a baby. Play also means being free to choose what to play with (from the selection you provide) and being free to play with it as little or as long as she wants. Then there is the play that lays their foundations for their lifetime of playing with others. This play includes singing lullabies, songs and jingles, dancing around the kitchen with your baby partner in your arms, making funny faces, and just generally hanging out."
Dance with Me in the Heart is written for parents and caregivers as a guide to the most important dance in every baby's life — the partnership dance. The book provides very practical and thoughtful advice on all aspects of caring for infants — nurturing, playing, feeding, toileting, sleeping, stimulating, and comforting. A great handout for new parents and it's also a non-threatening resource for infant caregivers.
ECDRC, IED, BRAC University
Dhaka, Bangladesh
08/26/2010 05:13 am
This is a simply fact for life young people. In my recent play research informants mothers said that play is only preferred task in which they do not have boring. Young children like to play whole day till to sleep. But, adult like to teach them without play that is very sad. Even though, adult destroy children play spaces due their greediness as well as lack of seeing future impact of it. So, awareness raising program on it very essential for them.
Tairawhiti POlytechnic
Gisborne, New Zealand, New Zealand
07/29/2010 4:23 pm
After receiving your daily news for quite a long time I am delighted to see a kiwi publication here, especially one as relevant to ece teachers as Brownlee's book. That first dance in anyones life is important, and infants deserve to dance with all of their beings, learning from every experience. My observations in my city of infant programmes still have room for more real play for infants and toddlers and in tune teachers to provide them
Kia ora!!
braininsights
United States
07/29/2010 07:55 am
What a wonderful post! It is so valuable to create the awareness of the importance of play. You described play in the way the brain benefits most! Thank you for sharing this critical information that will lead to more optimally developed brains!
Shishu Vikash Kendra
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
07/29/2010 07:24 am
Play is the window of the life of a child through which the child breaths in and
out . All the developments in the early childhood is fostered through play .