Children Quotes
My Connections to Play
QUOTES THAT SUMMARIZE WHAT PLAY REPRESENTED FOR ME AS A CHILD PICTURES OF ESSENTIAL PLAY ITEMS I ENJOYED AS A CHILD As I was growing up, playing was a way of life. My mother encouraged play and so did the entire neighborhood. I remember vividly how on the weekends we would get together and ride our bikes from one block to the next. I remember jumping rope day in and day out. The weekends we looked forward to. Groups of friends would get together to ride the bus to Greenville to go to Rollerworld. Rollerworld was the place where we would meet people from another town and maybe become friends. Play was considered a way of connecting with one another. Today play is so much different from the way I engaged as a child. Technology has taken over the way our children communicate with each other. Even as I look at my 13-year-old son and compare his way of communicating, for him he mostly engages his peers using a cell phone and video game...
Yolanda,
ReplyDeleteI love the quotes you chose. Thank you for sharing your knowledge over the past 8 weeks. I enjoyed reading your discussion posts. I wish you well as you continue your educational journey.
Donna
Yolanda,
ReplyDeleteYour quotes about teachers bring out the best in every child must become a universal language along with teacher motivation and love for the early childhood career field
Yolanda, I think that this quote is true, because when children first attend a child development center learning occurs through teacher and student interaction.
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