Building bricks better than digital downloads?
In Positive News, parents and children are encouraged to play with bricks rather than digital devices.
A neuroscientist has published research about how coordinated play between a parent and a child releases oxytocin in both. Art and other tactile activities trigger this release faster, helping to explain why creative sessions can shift a child’s mood more quickly than lectures or advice. Their nervous system literally feels a sense of safety through creation. On the other hand, what does it say to their neural networks if we’re constantly clutching our phones? That danger could strike at any moment, so we might need to be ready.
Visitors invited to rediscover analogue play – Positive News.
Dog of bricks.
Our photo for Friday Funnies shows the yellow dog of bricks built outside of Nettos (now Sainsbury’s) in Preston South. A blast from the recent past, highlighting a pleasurable method of analogue play! “Scotty” had been built from 86,000 separate bricks! He had been constructed to mark the Opening Day of Hedon Netto, Hull Road, Preston South on January 21 2016.
Now there’s an idea for those wishing to promote more analogue play… can we replicate Scotty the dog of bricks today!?
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