Play and Games Celebration Issue
Audio, Video and Web Resources
Play and Games Audios
The Soothing Power of Deep Creative Play
Growing UP - Growing DOWN - Growing IN - The Magic of Children's Spatial Development
Play and Games Articles
Benefits of Play & Cost of Playfulness
Open Ended Toys
How Youth Sports Turned 'Toxic'
Water Games
NPR Interview with Whole Child Sport's Luis Fernando Llosa
Luis discusses youth sports, early specialization and creativity.
Youth Sports, early specialization and creativity
Waldorf Games Handbook Now Available!
This classic games book offers a standby resource for parents, teachers, forest school educators, and play leaders. The games are tried and tested. They draw on worldwide Steiner-Waldorf creative education, where a "child’s work is their play." Child growth is explored and how this is helped by a rich treasury of action, finger, circle, clapping, beanbag, chasing, water, tumbling, story and singing games. There are both traditional favorites and also new games created to engage with digitally based challenging behavior. Each game is clearly and simply described, with diagrams and drawings for how to play. The games’ weaving of rhythms, movement, songs, stories, and pictures invites children into worlds of vibrant wonder. These games help children feel at ease in their bodies, build relationships, and enjoy playing.
Whole Child Sports
We founded Whole Child Sports and wrote Beyond Winning: Smart Parenting in a Toxic Sports Environment to raise awareness about the many problems in child and youth sports today and to provide advice and offer solutions to help improve our children’s sports experiences. We all want our kids to play sports long into adulthood. We all want them to have fun and develop as athletes and people.
Beyond Winning
By Kim John Payne, Luis Fernando Llosa and Scott Lancaster
Beyond Winning provides parents with help in the form of advice and concrete solutions to common questions, and step-by-step instructions for helping young children stay playful, develop athletic ability in an environment that’s less structured while encouraging personal growth.