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Welcome to Fishie School's play club!
Tuesdays 3:15 - 4:00 PM
Look around and it’s easy to see: Kids are too-often on a screen, in a car, or doing some kind of adult-led activity, from football to dance classes. At the same time, childhood anxiety is skyrocketing.
Let Grow and its founders believe there is a connection. Compare your own childhood to modern childhood - what’s missing from kids’ lives is plain old, freestyle PLAYING and SOCIALISING. In person.
Those things aren’t just fun - they’re fundamental. Throughout human history, playing, talking, and running around in a mixed-age group in the REAL WORLD is how kids learned to make friends, solve problems, be brave, and get along.
But opportunities are becoming rare. Instead of a play-based childhood, children are growing up play-deprived. Fishie's Let Grow Play Club is a place to get that old-skool, enriched time — screen-free! — to chat, play, and become happy, competent humans.
PLAY CLUB IS SIMPLE, BUT HAS ENORMOUS BENEFITS
Some pictures of the children obstacle course building, role playing and making dens during play club!
INDEPENDENCE & PLAY
INDEPENDENCE & PLAY
Check out this Video on why PLAY is so important for children and how this has a direct link with freedom and independence.
Kids learn social skills, focus, communication, and imagination by organising their own games and activities.
They learn to control themselves to keep the game going—the foundation of “executive function.”
When kids run around, they actually get more physical exercise than in organised sports.
They learn how to deal with and solve problems without always needing an adult.
They practise assessing and managing risk, which builds bravery and reduces anxiety (and makes them less likely to be injured than when playing in organised sports).
Kids are off their electronic devices and engaging in real-world face-to-face experiences, making friends.
Free play spurs cognitive development as well as physical development.
With all ages playing together, kids hone skills they can’t in single-age groups and make new friends they otherwise wouldn’t meet.
Parents know their kids are safe.
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