Why playtime for adults won’t bring your childhood back.
Is this a thing? No, really, is this a thing? If you live in Seattle, you may now participate in something called Adult Recess, which aims to recreate the joys of an American school break time, with kickball, hopscotch, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches - but minus the bullying. “I ( Read more... )

Further to the report about exclusion of children from social housing from playground in common area: More segregated playgrounds revealed: 'We just play in the carpark' [A] subsequent investigation has revealed that the story was not unique. As many as half a dozen developments across London - most of them relatively new, or featuring recent ( Read more... )

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Tory council to charge children £2.50 for using playground.

So the kids who can't afford it can play in the street and get knocked down by cars...?

Rather like the Edwardian eugenists who thought that a good typhoid epidemic would 'cleanse' the unfit from society, no? if only those interfering sanitarians hadn't had their way.

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Toys and gender, yet again: Francis's study, Gender, Toys and Learning, funded by the Froebel Educational Institute, is thought to be the first in more than 20 years examining the educational value of toys and their impact on learning. Am not surprised, given the ghastly gendering of playthings widely reported and the pinkification of stuff for ( Read more... )