My Connections to Play

QUOTES THAT SUMMARIZE WHAT PLAY REPRESENTED FOR ME AS A CHILD


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PICTURES OF ESSENTIAL    PLAY ITEMS I ENJOYED    AS A CHILD
Image result for images of children skatingAs 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. Children in my community are not jumping rope and neither are they riding bikes. Most of them are glued to the screen of their phone.

I think it is so sad because I really do not think children even realize the benefits of play. Even now at an early age, children are using tablets. Play for me was hands on rather technology.


Comments

  1. tracrooms@gmail.comJuly 28, 2018 at 11:49 AM


    I enjoyed the pictures you have post especially the one about every child is different like a flower, because they are beautiful in their own way. It is true that technology have taken over play. Children today are more engage in their phones then going outside and play. By doing so they are depriving themselves of physical play and learning how to actually socialize with children their age.

    Tracy C

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  2. The Nurture CultureJuly 29, 2018 at 6:06 AM

    Yolanda, play time was something I looked forward to. It was fun for the most part and when it got tense, I learned how to stand up for myself and settle disputes within the group. I hope that play can become as organic as it used to be after the 'technology obsession' dies down.

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  3. AnonymousJuly 29, 2018 at 12:19 PM

    Thank you for sharing and I enjoyed reading your blog. I also enjoyed going outside and interacting with other kids my age. We enjoyed skating and jumping rope as well!

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  4. Tracey MercerJuly 29, 2018 at 5:05 PM

    Hi Yolanda,
    I remember when I was a child we would go outside and stay outside all day and play with our friends and family and didn't go in the house until it was dark outside.

    I have to agree with you, play has changed a lot for children in our society now, they rather play electronics than go outside to play, I tell the schoolagers that I work with that when I was young play was the most important part of my day. We didn't know what it was like to stay inside and play electronics all day.

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  5. Tracey MercerJuly 29, 2018 at 5:06 PM

    Hi Yolanda,
    I also wanted to tell you that your posts about children were awesome

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