Neighborhoods that Nurture: Why The Play-Based Childhood Requires More Than Just Putting Down the Phone
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Neighborhoods that Nurture: Why The Play-Based Childhood Requires More Than Just Putting Down the Phone
State and local governments should also encourage more free play and recess in schools. They should consider the needs of children in zoning and permitting, and they should invest in more vocational education and other programs that have been shown to help adolescents, especially boys, make the transition to adulthood.
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outside of their dwellings, many people are currently inhabiting the smaller pockets of space in and around their neighbourhoods: local parks, even just copses or patches of grass or playgrounds; the street corners (talking at a safe distance) of diverse, scaled-well high streets, that can actually speak to and articulate the local communities they... See more
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