COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS ON PLAY

https://sspride.org/playing-while-black/

SPEAKERS @ Let Grow + Just Play Project Event, 11.30.2016 @ Ithaca Youth Bureau Peter Gray, Ph.D.: Boston College professor, author of “Free to Learn” and an international expert on what kids need to grow up healthy, happy and successful. | Lenore … — SPEAKERS @ Let Grow + Just Play Project Event, 11.30.2016 @ Ithaca Youth Bureau

Peter Gray, Ph.D.: Boston College professor, author of “Free to Learn” and an international expert on what kids need to grow up
healthy, happy and successful. | Lenore Skenazy: Founder of the book, blog and movement Free-Range Kids and President of Let Grow, a non-profit dedicated to restoring resilience. | Rusty Keeler: Co-founder, Just Play Project, author, “Natural Playscapes,” co-creator, Hands-on-Nature Anarchy Zone

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) International Treaty

ARTICLE 31

“THAT EVERY CHILD HAS THE RIGHT TO REST AND LEISURE, TO ENGAGE IN PLAY AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES APPROPRIATE TO THE AGE OF THE CHILD AND TO PARTICIPATE FREELY IN CULTURAL LIFE AND THE ARTS.”

THE CRC IS THE MOST WIDELY RATIFIED INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY - PROTECTING AND RESPECTING THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN WORLDWIDE. SINCE 1989, 195 OF 196 STATE-PARTIES HAVE RATIFIED THE CRC...LEAVING THE UNITED STATES AS THE SOLE COUNTRY NOT TO RATIFY THE CRC.