The Washington Post – Valerie Strauss
“Angela Hanscom is a pediatric occupational therapist who founded TimberNook, a nature-based development program designed to foster creativity and independent play outdoors in New England. She has written a number of popular posts on this blog, including “Why so many kids can’t sit still in school today,” and she posts often on the TimberNook blog. Hanscom believes that children today are being harmed by restriction of movement in school, where recess and physical education have been dramatically cut back in many places, and outside, where playtime has become overly scripted. Efforts to make playgrounds safer, such as barring monkey bars or equipment from which children can fall, are backfiring, she says. And there is some research to support it.”(more)