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dren since birth. One of Executive Pro-
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found that the more children played,
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the more they laughed, especially when
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outside. In fact, children who played
the most laughed up to 20 times more
than others.
As a child psychologist, Living-
“In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them
stone maintains that it is important to
I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars
get the balance right between unstruc-
were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...
tured play and the high level of struc-
tured activity, such as music, drama
you, only you, will have stars that can laugh!”
and language classes, which take up
~From The Little Prince by Antoine de St. Exupery
so much of the modern child’s time.
Children who are allowed to play and
explore outside are likely to be more
adventurous, self-motivated and better
able to understand risk when they grow
up, according to Livingstone.
Her research team found the
amount of time children are allowed
to roam out of their parents’ sight has
dropped by 90 percent over the past 20
years. “This is an extraordinary change
and it says a lot about our fear of
modern life, pedophilia, etc. Children
learn two things from this: Strangers
are fearsome and dangerous, and it’s
dangerous to go outside,” she explains.
She also notes other research indicating
that children are probably safer from
stranger danger when playing outside
with other children than when playing
online alone.
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