ASTRA believes play is a child's most
important work. Play is how children
have fun, acquire skills, experience success, and build self-esteem. Through
play children figure out the world and where and how they fit in.
Through Play children practice,
reinforce and remember what they are learning.
“Children have to play with what they know to be true in order to find
out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play.”
Fred Rogers
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Through Play children learn to manage
their emotions and conquer their anxieties.
“Play gives the child a safe space where she can experiment at will,
suspending the rules and constraints of physical and social reality. In play,
the child becomes master rather than subject.”
Alicia F. Lieberman
Author, The Emotional Life of
the Toddler
Through Play children inquire, imagine,
process information, and think.
“It
is language time… problem-solving time… It is memory time, planning time,
investigating time. It is organization-of-ideas time, when the young child uses
his mind and body and his social skills and all hispowers in response to the
stimuli he has met.”
James
L.Hymes, Jr.
Child
Development Specialist
Through Play children develop, mature,
and grow.
“Play is the most significant tool for preparing (the child) for the
future and its tasks.”
Bruno Bettelheim, Child Psychologist
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