Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 4/19/2006 9:46:00 AM Author: Kim (batkinson@excelligencemail.com) Subject: Why should the children walk? Why do we ... Why should the children walk? Why do we ask them to walk inside? For our adult benefit or the child's? No, they will not hurt themselves and if they do it is the perfect learning opportunity to explain why we walk is perferred. We send children outside to run in an environment that is usually harder with more sharp objects and protrusions than the inside. Why do we ask them to walk inside? Maybe the children need more time outside so they can run and release their excess energy. Children run. It is what they do. They have so much enengy they cannot possible control it all. If we ask them to we are considering our adult needs, not the child's needs. In my center, children run if they want and I expect my teachers to keep up with them. If they cannot keep up that is a different issue. Ask yourself why you want them to walk not how are you going to make them walk. Name: Email: Subject

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