The Play Gap

A play gap in our children's development is making school harder than it should be. Children today don't spend as much time in big-body physical play as children in previous generations which means their brains have no idea how to use their bodies for learning.
Consider that the human brain has to understand how to use arms and hands to move a pencil across a page. That takes strength, which children build by getting physical in their play: swinging, climbing, building forts, and digging in sand.
The body has to be still in order to attend, but the brain needs the body to move in order to understand how to use it. If the body hasn't moved enough, the brain is going to make it move anyway because it is screaming for information about the world in which it is expected to operate. This looks like bad behavior or poor self-regulation, but it could just be the brain looking to fill an unmet developmental need.
When kids are still and spend the majority of their time in sedentary behaviors, like those that involve screens, their brains do not receive the information they need to use the body to learn and behave.
It is time we add more moving back into the school day to facilitate this process. That doesn't mean adding moving that takes the place of PE and recess, it means in addition to PE and recess.
It may seem like that might be more than a teacher can and should take on because teachers already have so much on their plates already. But study after study PROVES that more moving helps kids achieve more. So moving isn't time wasted, rather it is time gained with less frustration all around.
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[@chocmoose18]

Thank you for sharing this. 😊

[@PivottoPlay]

My pleasure!