<div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"lyon text",georgia,times,serif;font-size:18px">thoughts re the (much appreciated) toy cleanup in PVD.... </p><p><font color="#000000" face="lyon text, georgia, times, serif"><span style="font-size:18px"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/03/the-toy-free-kindergarten/520905/">https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/03/the-toy-free-kindergarten/520905/</a></span></font><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"lyon text",georgia,times,serif;font-size:18px">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.<br></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"lyon text",georgia,times,serif;font-size:18px">“What should I do now?” my son, then 5, asked.</p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"lyon text",georgia,times,serif;font-size:18px">He did not get an answer to this question for a long time. His day-care center, or <em>kita</em>, 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.</p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"lyon text",georgia,times,serif;font-size:18px">“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.”</p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 1:00 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:summit-request@sna.providence.ri.us" target="_blank">summit-request@sna.providence.ri.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send Summit mailing list submissions to<br>
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The Providence Parks Department removed the unsafe toys from the Summit Avenue tot lot as well as two other parks.<br>
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