Learn to Play, Play to Learn

The First Five Years is a weekly radio program presented by Maryland Family Network and airing on WEAA 88.9 FM. The program was previously on WYPR 88.1 FM. The series is focused on the extraordinary developmental period from birth to age five. The First Five Years highlights the challenges and opportunities related to nurturing young children and helping them build a solid foundation for success in school and in life. This program is made possible in part by M&T Charitable Foundation.

Learn to Play, Play to Learn

The job of children is to play. It’s how they learn. Study after study confirms this. Now new research from Middlesex University says that the reason young children learn through play is that their brains are actually designed that way.

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Resources & Links

MDX academic book reveals massive benefit of play on child development (Middlesex University)

Again! Again! Here's why toddlers love to do things on repeat (NPR)

Play Researcher (Kathy Hirsh Pasek)