Play is not a luxury. Unstructured outdoor play presents children with risks and enables them to learn how to handle them appropriately.
According to clinical psychologists Drs. Susan Davis and Nancy Eppler-Wolff (Children Who Soar: A Parent’s Guide to Helping Children Take Good Risks (2009)):“Risk is inevitable, and without learning the skills of good risk-taking, our children will be more apt to take impulsive and poor risks. Through the development of thoughtful risk-taking, children will be better equipped to leap at life’s opportunities, and to rebound from life’s disappointments. Learning to take smart risks early on prepares them to recognise and think through issues of safety and danger. They will have had experience identifying the challenge and the risk, and have worked with parents and teachers on how to proceed to the next step, using their intellect and emotional skills. They are also better able to struggle more tenaciously through failures because they have experienced small setbacks.” Unstructured outdoor play presents them with these learning opportunities – throw in a Jungle Gym with monkey bars, swings and slides, to hang off, climb up and swing from and the opportunities for developing risk assessment and management skills are immeasurable.
To access the physical, creative, cognitive, social and emotional development benefits of a Jungle Gym, please give us a call on 043 748 5880, send us an email
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