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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...