Campaign for stress free, commercial free childhood

13/10/2024

Exciting news from EYLAR!
🚀 We're launching our expert consultancy services to help you set up or improve your daycare and preschool business! With our team of seasoned professionals, we bring global best practices, play-based learning, and nature-inspired education to the forefront. Let's create an environment where children thrive! 🌱

23/08/2022

FORGOTTEN GAME

Its hard to believe that childhood is been endangered since the advent of hi-tech games, Helicopter parenting, super-standardized testing, No recess theory, all time academic schools, stranger danger phobias, modern lifestyles and yes the advent of ugly

SEVEN STONES - A FORGOTTEN GAME Its hard to believe ...

01/11/2021

10/10/2021

Many of our greatest thinkers locate their capacity for original and profound thought in their imaginative abilities, first developed through creative play in early childhood.” - Sharna Olfman Psychology Professor Point Park University.

HANDS ARE TOOLS OF OUR BRAIN By; Erum Khan, Learner at 'Learning Creative Learning' at MIT (MOOC) “Many of our greatest thinkers locate their capacity for original and profound thought in their imaginative abilities, first developed through creative play in early c

20/09/2021

18/09/2021

Girls and Importance of Free Play...
Play is at the core of the development of the child. Children experience and learn about their world through play: they explore their physical environment, express their emotions and build their vocabulary through playful moments. Play is very natural for children around the world. It is a really important tool for children’s cognitive, physical, social and emotional development and also their imagination and creativity.
Its more important for Girls to play outside at home, neighborhood and in schools. We need to create more avenue for girl child to. develop their self confidence, imagination and a positive self esteem...

09/09/2021

The purpose of school, in other words, was to "elevate" children out of their natural state (which was, in Mr. Harris' view, "totally depraved") and train them to take their place in man's grand project of "subordinating the material world to his use." As Harris explains, "The nations and peoples of the world rank high or low... according to the degree in which they have realized this ideal of humanity." Cultures that did not see things this way confronted a choice: "absorb our culture and become intellectually productive or else––die out. This is the judgment pronounced by the Anglo Saxon upon the lower races."

“One gram of experience is better than a ton of theory, simply because every theory becomes vivid and can be proven only through experience“. LANDSCAPE OF LEARNING IS CHANGING “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

24/05/2021

The stigma attached to poverty and low incomes begins early in childhood. When children make dens in parent-funded woodland sessions, their play is valued, encouraged and understood as a part of their development. The same natural play on a housing estate can be viewed as anti-social behaviour, and children’s dens are dismantled and disposed of.

Why we need to poverty proof the outdoors and stop believing the outdoors is free

09/05/2021

Taking home small souvenirs of the woods is just the beginning of things kids can’t do in nature. In many parks and other public lands, kids are told by rangers, parents, or teachers not to leave the trail, not to climb rocks or trees, not to whack trees with sticks, not to build forts or lean-tos, not to dig holes, not to move rocks from one place to another within the park, not to yell or even talk too loudly. Are we having fun yet?

It was the kid with the rocks that finally did it for Matthew Browning.

04/04/2021

But any Maori parent knows that you have to watch a child patiently, quietly, without interference, to learn whether he has the nature of the warrior or the priest. Our children come to us as seeking beings, Maori teachers tell us, with two rivers running through them — the celestial and the physical, the knowing and the not-yet-knowing. Their struggle is to integrate the two. Our role as adults is to support this process, not to shape it. It is not ours to control.

The following statement somehow showed up on my Twitter feed the other day: “Spontaneous reading happens for a few kids. The vast majority need (and all can benefit from) explicit instruction in...

04/04/2021

Violation of Child's Right; Detention of Play time ...
Schools should never threaten to take away a pupil’s break or lunch time as a punishment, the society’s educational and child psychology division.
Children learn to manage a range of emotions through playing such as frustration, determination, disappointment and confidence, the British Psychological Society said in a position paper on the issue.

Giving children detention during break time is a violation of their human rights, the British Psychological Society has said.