Play in Early Childhood

I have been completing an assignment on the importance of play in Early Childhood Education and I came across this article which I found really interesting. This is a speech given by early childhood development expert Nancy Carlsson-Paige, a professor of education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Ma., when she won the Embracing the Legacy Award from the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps (link below). What she says is so true. I don't think that the importance of play during childhood can be overrated. I might pop over to Amazon and have a look for her book.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/11/24/how-twisted-early-childhood-education-has-become-from-a-child-development-expert/