Robin Marantz Henig Quotes

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Children need to move to develop their brain; it's a natural urge. That's why boys will run after a ball and play soccer despite how many video games are available to them, and they can't help themselves from building with Lego bricks as well. They want to be creating something that's uniquely their own.

I believe a child's most important job is to explore the world around them through play.

Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration.

We know when children have a place to play they live healthier, happier lives.

In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We hope to intrinsically change the opinion that play is not just a luxury but an absolute necessity for kids' lives.

Children have such vibrant minds. They need to play. They need to be creative. They need to imagine. It's so important for their sense of self discovery. And it helps them learn problem-solving.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Play is the work of childhood.

Free-flow play is not compulsory, but there is a belief across lots of nurseries that it is. I have seen too many chaotic settings, where children are running around. There's no sense of purpose.

The main point for me is that toys are incredibly more important than we realized.

Research has shown that children who play often both solitarily and socially become more creative and imaginative than those whose exposure to play and toys is limited.

Forget about teaching the children about numbers and colors and the like, and just play with them.

Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant.

Kids who don't play are not just at greater risk of falling behind academically, but also of becoming overweight or obese, failing to integrate socially, and even engaging in criminal activity.

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

Every child is so different. Their experience growing up and their experience relating to the world has so much to do with their temperament, and their likes and their dislikes.

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.