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Given the importance of play to children’s lifelong cognitive, social, and emotional health, one would think that we would do everything possible to preserve space for it in our children’s lives. Yet the exact opposite is happening. Studies on how children spend their time suggest that the time children spend on creative, pretend play is diminishing. A recent survey on children’s time use suggests that from 1997 to 2002, over the course of just five years, the amount of time that six- to eight-year-old children spent on creative play diminished by about a third.

Quote ID: 00647

Author

Susan Linn

Source

The Case For Make Believe

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