Play Deprivation and its Impact – Now is the Time for Play: IPEMA Featured in Play & Playground Magazine
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June 16, 2020As parents around the country continue to juggle the duties of working, supervising, and homeschooling children, one piece of the puzzle that has not received much attention is children’s critical need for free, outdoor play, and the importance this has on their physical, mental, emotional and cognitive development.
IPEMA President Tom Norquist wrote an op-ed for The Dallas Morning News on not overlooking the critical importance that play – a vital human activity – has on childhood development.
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