In today's busy, competitive world, parents tend to fill every minute of their children’s’ day with structured activities—extra lessons, multiple sports practices and matches, chores etc.
Sound Familiar?
Well you could be doing your children less of a service than you think you are. Medical research is starting to show the importance of unstructured play to the development of our children.
Unstructured play allows children the freedom to explore, create and discover without predetermined rules or guidelines. Because unstructured play involves trying out different strategies without particular goals or serious consequences, children get to practice different activities during play and see what happens. This experience results in them being able to react to circumstances in a faster and more flexible fashion. Unstructured play enhances their creativity, imagination and hence problem-solving abilities. If this unstructured play is together with other children, it results in improved self-control, strengthened negotiation and social skills, and better overall emotional intelligence.
Who wouldn’t want those skills in their children?
Outdoor playground equipment is just one of the many ways we can provide our children with unstructured play opportunities and help them to practice the physical and manual skills, intellectual skills, social skills, and emotional skills required to become successful adults.
If you would like to explore the use of playground equipment for your children’s unstructured play, please give us a call, drop us an email
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