Judy McKinty
Where there are children, there is play. It is a universal impulse, as old as humanity. Physical play, verbal play, friendship play, solitary play – it is the exercise of body and imagination, marked by humour, challenge, invention and exploration. As essential to childhood as food and drink.
Dr. June Factor
Playground Ideas
Play Australia
Play is: Freely Chosen, Personally Directed and Intrinsically Motivated
Tim Gill - Play Wales
No video game, Covid-19 lockdown or computer simulation can replace the childhood liberation of being alone on a bicycle
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/28/to-deny-children-the-simp…
South Australian Commissioner for Children and Young People
Melbourne writer Doug Hendrie gives us a refreshing take on his family's learnings from the 2020 Pandemic. Doug's recent article featured in The Age, and speaks to how the lockdown gave him and his children the freedom to be bored!
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/in-praise-of-boredom-a-lock…
WHO statistics show that one in four adults, and four out of five adolescents, do not get enough physical activity.
https://www.who.int/news/item/25-11-2020-every-move-counts-towards-bett…