Children and teens are growing up in a constantly changing and fast-evolving digital world and the tangle of technology’s wires is tightening around them a little more each day. Televisions in doctor’s offices, touch screens on airplanes, tablet cases with …
A Bubble Wrapped Life “Be careful!” “Stop that!” “Not so high!” While car crashes are a leading cause of death, play is not. In fact, children are more likely to require medical attention for a stair-related injury than play. They …
Freedom and Fulfillment “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s own attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Viktor Frankl An illness …
This is a fun and educational craft that will get kids outdoors as well as provide for an opportunity to discuss a simple chemical reaction. Here is a video of a snow volcano in action and an explanation of the …
Both children and adults seem to be glued to electronics these days. We are surrounded by smartphones, tablets, television, and video gaming consoles. Results of a study from Preventive Medicine Reports are discussed in this article. “The study showed that …
Children today tend to stay indoors during the winter months, but it’s just as important to get outside during the winter season. At Fitzgerald, children go outside spring, summer, fall, and winter for at least two hours per day. Winter …
At Fitzgerald, children spend time outside year-round engaging in daily age-mixed free play. Unstructured play is essential to children’s mental and physical well-being. The decline in play and movement over the years is negatively impacting our children. Dr. Peter Gray …
At Fitzgerald, students enjoy the first hour of their day in an unstructured outdoor play time. After lunch students spend another hour outdoors in a nature’s classroom setting.Students thoroughly enjoy getting dirty! There is a wealth of research that explains …
Reclaiming Childhood by Jeanine K. Fitzgerald It was not that long ago children were expected to leave the world of adults to explore the larger world that surrounded them. The revered way of exploring their world was through play. …
Think back to your childhood. How did you play? I know for me and many others, play consisted of outdoors, unsupervised, imaginative activities, from the playground to the woods. We would walk or bike (without a helmet) around the neighborhood …