Making Kids Smarter - Kids In America Have Stopped Playing - And It's Costing Them!

Many children are robbed of authentic play. Even though research shows that children who play are smarter, we discount it as a waste of time. We can't measure it or quantify it. John Byers, and animal play scholar discovered an important correlation to the amount of play and the brain's frontal cortex, which is responsible for cognition or thinking. During play, we discover new possibilities and learn from them. Animals spontaneously "play" in order to test out their strength and the strength of their would-be opponents. According to Dr. Stuart Brown, founder of the National Institute for Play, we are born to play and without it, we lose our sense of optimism. He states that play is not necessarily an activity so much as it is a state of mind. He states that when we stop playing, we start dying.

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