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A challenge for playwork: The scary world of 12 year olds
Reblogged from Parenting And Stuff: It was an evening last week when I learned that my 12 years old daughter, a very sensitive and empathic girl, is chatting with a friend who is, at the same time ove… more →
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A challenge for playwork: The scary world of 12 year olds
wrote 1 month ago: Reblogged from Parenting And Stuff: It was an evening last week when I learned that my 12 years old … more →
Teacher Tom: The Shape Of The Block In My Hand
wrote 1 month ago: Teacher Tom: The Shape Of The Block In My Hand. Lots of wisdom in this blog. It’s also … more →
My favourite A.S.Neill anecdote: if it featured a car, I could have called it 'Cars and Girls'
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wrote 1 month ago: Here’s my favourite Neill anecdote, told in my own words. It works like a stun grenade lobbed … more →
Arising in the playspace: what is the role of the playworker?
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wrote 1 month ago: Thank you to Morgan for sharing this quote: “I am of course employed as a leader, but on an adventur … more →
A Design History of Childhood
wrote 2 months ago: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brainpickings/rss/~3/wANMTTMt3KQ/ Fascinating and inspiring stuff, lo … more →
Has the play movement* done it's job? Do we even need to save it? Should we just shut up and let playful people remake the world, in a onesie, one library at a time?
wrote 2 months ago: Definition (extract – Encyclopaedia Ludica, 5th edition 2027) *Play Movement, The (UK termino … more →
Even the sports guys think there is not enough play and too much testing
wrote 2 months ago: “I told a friend today that it’s time to take a stand. Here is that stand. “I have been an ad … more →
Time and play and life and flow
wrote 2 months ago: Reblogged from playworkings: It has been conference week in the playwork ‘world’ (as you who were al … more →
The Artists of the Island on the River that flowed through the City
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wrote 2 months ago: Once upon a time, there was an island in the middle of a mighty river which flowed through a great c … more →
Pennsylvania kindergartener uses Hello Kitty bubble-gun at school, suspended for "terrorist threat" - Boing Boing
wrote 4 months ago: http://boingboing.net/2013/01/21/pennsylvania-kindergartener-us.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_ … more →
SNOWBALLS. SOME SCHOOLS CLOSED. SOME CHILDREN SLEDGING.
wrote 4 months ago: Ooh, there is snow. Snow picture borrowed from my chum: A snow day means a play day! Some schools an … more →
A calm defence of adventure playgrounds in the midst of extremism...
wrote 4 months ago: … the extremists being the short, sighted politicians on Wandsworth council: telling lies and … more →
SAVING THE HIGH STREET: WHY CAN’T 'WE ALL BE IN IT TOGETHER’ AND SORT IT OUT?
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wrote 4 months ago: Closed down shops, graffiti, tatty ‘To Let’ signs, a few sad-looking folk waiting for a bus. It’s th … more →
DEAR OTHER PARENTS AT THE PARK: Please do not lift my daughters to the top of the ladder, especially after you've just heard me tell them I wasn't going to do it for them and encourage them to try it themselves
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wrote 4 months ago: ”I am not sitting here, 15 whole feet away from my kids, because I am too lazy to get up. I am sitti … more →
Termframe
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wrote 4 months ago: Designed to remind you of timeframe, a termframe is my neologism; an attempt to point to something i … more →
CRESS OR YEW? Absolutist Visionary Fatwas & the Temporality Of Doom
wrote 4 months ago: If a blog isn’t an opportunity for the odd wee self-indulgence then what is? I just said this—the th … more →
New rules for fragile, vicious children
wrote 6 months ago: Attention, people who work with children, these are the truths you should teach your customers: You … more →
Be kind
wrote 6 months ago: “In a lot of ways, Vonnegut was an embodiment of the spirit behind today’s Occupy movement. Sh … more →
A poem featuring Vonnegut’s reluctant warmth and peculiar brand of sullen optimism
wrote 6 months ago: Among the seemingly mundane epistolary chronicles lie gems that shimmer with Vonnegut’s reluctant wa … more →
