In an article in the New York Times, Robin Marantz Henig writes: “Stuart Brown, president of the National Institute for Play, was speaking at the New York Public Library’s main branch on 42nd Street…. Brown called play part of the ‘‘developmental sequencing of becoming a human primate…. Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits. Alarming headlines about U.S. students falling behind other countries in science and math, combined with the ever-more-intense competition to get kids into college, make parents rush to sign up their children for piano lessons and test-prep courses instead of just leaving them to improvise on their own; playtime versus résumé building.”

To read the entire article, please go to:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/magazine/17play.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin