Back-to-School: Play and Academic Success
School starts next week, and so our kids will be back to a day of structured learning. But this year Fiona won't be taking Spanish and Mandarin and knitting and drama. Most days after school she and Molly [who starts Kindergarten!!], are going to walk home, hopefully with the neighborhood kids, and hang around and play.
Why?
I keep reading the statistics about how kids are spending less time playing, both indoors and out, and about how ...
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