Showing Posts By: Stuart Brown MD. National Institute for Play
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Play and Nature
In this post we will examine how combining play with NATURE can amplify the positive effects that both have on human well-being. There are ...

Epigenesis, Play, and Its Effect on Our Lives
In this blog, I’ll focus on as yet obscure, but nonetheless significant, aspects of play science, namely, play and epigenesis - the ...

The Science Behind Intergenerational Play Vol. 1
As PlayCore blog readers who follow my writings have already noted, I am a fan of uniting the deeply embedded human play nature which we ...

The Science Behind Dog Parks
It is a winter sunrise morning, and Cookie, a 50 lb. female elegant ebony-haired mutt discovered a year ago at the local SPCA, and now a ...

Play is a Universal Gift of Nature in Times of ...
I find it a remarkable opportunity to share some of the wonderment and substantive information that has come my way as I delve deeply into ...

Music is Play for Everyone
Play, despite the solid scientific descriptions of its benefits for all age groups, is still often seen as mainly for kids, and not ...

Tinkering and Its Relationship with Problem Solving
Today, I am reveling in one of many long walks along the mile and a half white sandy stretch of beach that joins Carmel-by-the sea with the ...

Imaginative and Pretend Play: Part Two
In previous blogs, we've reviewed broad ways of seeing play behavior and provided an expanded intellectual understanding of play; however ...

Imaginative and Pretend Play: Part One
The way a safe and well-fed infant matures and spontaneously begins to play is affirmation of its nature as being an integral part of our ...