Tag: playfulness

Sand Castles and Sharks’ Teeth

Published in 1986, and still popular today, Robert Fulghum’s bestseller “All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” highlights the life lessons learned in early childhood. Play fair, don’t hit people, and hold hands and stick together were just a few of the axioms making Fulghum’s list. “Take any one of these items,”…


How Playfulness Develops and Spurs a Drive to Learn

Everyone talks about the benefits of playfulness for learning and development. But what do we do to become playful? What helps or hinders us on that road? And what is it like to stay on that road? If we can map out the path, including its obstacles and its benefits, it will be easier to…