[Summit] Summit Digest, Vol 144, Issue 13

[Elizabeth Moloney]

thoughts re the (much appreciated) toy cleanup in PVD....

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/03/the-toy-free-kindergarten/520905/

At a Berlin day-care center, the children packed away all the toys: the
cars, the tiny plastic animals, the blocks and Legos, even the board games
and most of the art materials. They then stood in the empty classroom and
looked at their two instructors.

“What should I do now?” my son, then 5, asked.

He did not get an answer to this question for a long time. His day-care
center, or *kita*, was starting a toy-free kindergarten project. For
several weeks, the toys would disappear, and the teachers wouldn’t tell the
children what to play. While this practice may seem harsh, the project has
an important pedagogic goal: to improve the children’s life skills to
strengthen them against addictive behaviors in the future.

“Without any toys, children have the time to develop their own ideas,” said
Elisabeth Seifert, the managing director of Aktion Jugendschutz, a
Munich-based youth nonprofit that promotes this project. “In toy-free time,
they don’t play with finished toys. They develop their own games. They play
more together, so they can better develop psychosocial competencies.”

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> The Providence Parks Department removed the unsafe toys from the Summit
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Elizabeth Moloney
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