Big kids teaching little kids
Recreational activities run by leisure centres are ideal vehicles with which to positively influence a child’s behaviour, particularly if the program coordinators are young at heart.
Related topics: children,recreation
10 December 2009
A recent article by Nicola Adolphe suggests that anyone who can fold a piece of paper into a pirate hat or put a basketball through a hoop will be admitted into the child’s central sphere of influence. This is because they have no ‘hidden agendas’, they are simply at play.
In a child’s eyes a play-worker or a holiday camp leader has greater importance than the teacher they see every day at school.
For more information see:
‘Providing children’s activities: can we do better?’ by Nicola Adophe in Recreation Volume 68 no.8 2009.
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