

The Importance of Play in Your Child’s Emotional Well-Being
If you take a walk around the neighborhood, you’ll notice the absence of children playing. Many of them are in school, but even on weekends you may find yourself asking where the kids are. Growing up, you may remember playing with neighborhood friends after school, but that’s been replaced with after-school programs and video games inside. Unstructured play time for kids is a thing of the past and that’s unfortunate. Kids need to create and build things; they have to pretend