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Health Tip: Promote Play for Your Child
By HealthCast on September 4, 2018
Playtime is important to any child, especially one that is under pressure and stressed, the American Academy of Pediatrics says.
Playtime is a brain-building activity that’s a healthy and necessary part of childhood development, the academy adds.
The group offers this advice to parents, doctors and educators:
- Doctors should encourage playful learning by writing a “prescription for play” at every well-child visit in the first two years of life.
- Play should start early and continue through a child’s development.
- Educators, doctors and families should advocate for playful learning at school.
- Parents and teachers should allocate time for daily physical activity.
Source: HealthDay
