Health Check Kids: The importance of play time
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Written by BARBARA MORSE SILVA
The American Academy of Pediatrics is concerned that free play has been greatly reduced.
It's directly linked to your child's development -- emotionally, socially and physically, so the organization is encouraging physicians to write a prescription for play at children's well visits.
"Unstructured play time is very important for our children and we're seeing less and less of it as people have very hurried lives and active schedules and both parents are working,” said Dr. Sandra Musial, a pediatrician in the health clinic at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. "I think the unstructured play allows children to learn certain things that they don't learn in structured environments.”
