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Ep. 52 Natural Playgrounds with Ron King
Kids Who Explore Parent Edition
English - January 25, 2022 06:00 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsKids & Family Society & Culture Places & Travel adventurepodcast adventurewithlittles comingsoon keeplearning kidswhoexplore kidswhpexplorepodcast kwepodcast mamaminis mamasedition mamaspodcast Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Do you ever wonder why kids can see a playground full of shiny equipment, yet they are drawn to the sticks, rocks, branches, trees, logs, fallen leaves, and the list goes on, instead? Ron King wondered this too, but it didn’t take long before he saw all the benefits of natural play and started a family business called Natural Playgrounds, who are the leading experts in building natural playgrounds for kids!!
For 26 years, the King family has owned Natural Playgrounds, and they have been the leading experts in designing beautiful, intriguing, cost-effective, safe, and philosophically appropriate Natural Playgrounds for K-12 schools, Montessori schools, Head Start programs, childcare centers, and communities.
Benefits of Natural Play:
Contributes to overall physical, cognitive, and emotional development of children
Helps kids score higher on tests for concentration and self-discipline
Helps kids experience more diverse play
Kids exhibit less aggressive behaviour
Advances motor fitness
Promotes health
Develops creativity
It “invites children in”
Reduces injuries
Is more inclusive
Allows for free play
14 billion dollars in the United States alone are spent on accidents from traditional playgrounds. Some reasons being that kids go beyond their skill level, or they get bored, so they try perform activities that are “too risky.” The age suggestion for equipment is very arbitrary. Natural playgrounds are good for all ages, because you can play to your own skill level and everything is built into the ground.
Recommendations:
Shows: Yellowstone & Foundation
Book: Boy Swallowed Universe by Trent Dalton & The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer
Follow Natural Playgrounds:
https://www.naturalplaygrounds.com
https://www.facebook.com/NaturalPlaygroundsCompany
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Today’s Host: @laurenrodycheberle from @kidswhoexplore
Production: @kpmediaproductions. Music: @michaelferraro_music