{"content":[{"text":"(anger, fear, disgust, shock, sadness and joy) into \n more nuanced and subtle forms (grief, pleasure, \n displeasure, affection, contentment, exasperation, \n disappointment).","bbox":{"left":0.07098,"top":0.03665,"width":0.39974600000000005,"height":0.06755499999999999}},{"text":"Play is the way humans develop efficient brains; \n playing enhances cortical connections and neural \n organisation; when humans play, the nerve signals the \n body generates create neural pathways that help with \n brain development and brain plasticity (flexibility). By \n so doing playing contributes to developing ‘effective \n systems for learning’ rather than particular learning \n outcomes.","bbox":{"left":0.07098,"top":0.123317,"width":0.39979000000000003,"height":0.135434}},{"text":"Playing is a child’s free, open, boundless, and self-­‐ \n controlled activity; through play children discover the \n differences between themselves, others and the world \n in which they live. These discoveries help them \n become individuals and independent, self-­‐sufficient \n and autonomous.","bbox":{"left":0.07098,"top":0.277859,"width":0.39969200000000005,"height":0.10149799999999998}},{"text":"The human species is attracted to newness, humans \n are curious, with a desire for new experiences as they \n become adult. This gives humans a capacity to find \n stimulation and interest in everything around them. \n Children need varied and stimulating environments \n and experiences in order to thrive, in adults this \n playful drive is translated in creative and innovative \n activities.","bbox":{"left":0.521961,"top":0.355349,"width":0.399397,"height":0.13543399999999994}},{"text":"Playing is vital to the understanding, development and \n maintenance of valued relationships with others. \n Playful interactions with others help in understanding \n relationships and attachment, language, roles and \n social structures.","bbox":{"left":0.07098,"top":0.398468,"width":0.399722,"height":0.08452500000000002}},{"text":"By playing children learn what works and what does \n not; it is creative, flexible and adaptable; it helps with \n the development of flexible, adaptive strategies to the \n problems that life offers children. Understanding that \n life is not always ‘fair’ or ‘good’ helps children to \n adapt to problems in life and develop resilience and \n optimism to deal with stressful or traumatic events in \n the future.","bbox":{"left":0.07098,"top":0.496044,"width":0.399669,"height":0.13513100000000006}},{"text":"Context","bbox":{"left":0.661961,"top":0.522295,"width":0.08318499999999995,"height":0.024414000000000047}},{"text":"The General Comment No. 17 (2013) on United \n Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child \n (UNCRC) Article 31 launched in September 2013 was a \n welcome reminder of the right of children to rest, \n leisure, play, recreational activities, cultural life and \n the arts. However IPA’s focus is on children’s right to \n play and so IPA has prepared this Declaration on the \n Importance of Play.","bbox":{"left":0.521961,"top":0.592925,"width":0.39936799999999995,"height":0.135131}},{"text":"Play is chaotic and transformative; it helps children be \n spontaneous, highly creative, original, and open. \n Playing connects to ‘threshold experiences’ and opens \n up ‘worlds of possibility’ that children recognise as \n mysterious and ‘magical’.","bbox":{"left":0.07098,"top":0.650589,"width":0.39967900000000006,"height":0.08452500000000007}},{"text":"Children can and will play in most places. A rich \n environment for play includes: natural elements; \n opportunities for risk and challenge; places to express \n emotions; stimulation for the senses; chances for \n social interactions; interesting and varied physical and \n human environment and sufficient space to do what is \n wanted. Children will play more in environments that \n afford opportunities for various types of play. Children \n have different and varied play needs throughout \n childhood and adolescence; environments should \n offer endless variety and stimulation to children.","bbox":{"left":0.07098,"top":0.754226,"width":0.39983300000000005,"height":0.18634300000000015}},{"text":"Play is a vital and fundamental part of the human \n experience; it is important to the lives of children in \n that it gives them pleasure in being alive and is \n essential to their healthy physical and mental growth, \n able to function in the culture and society in which \n they are born.","bbox":{"left":0.521961,"top":0.745349,"width":0.399332,"height":0.101495}},{"text":"Yet there is a widespread lack of understanding of the \n value of play, and it is often considered a trivial part of \n children’s lives or dismissed as an unnecessary \n distraction from ‘more important’ activities such as","bbox":{"left":0.521961,"top":0.858683,"width":0.3993939999999999,"height":0.06725200000000009}},{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.047451,"top":0.949094,"width":0.009004999999999999,"height":0.015233000000000052}},{"text":"lorem ipsum :: [Date]","bbox":{"left":0.785229,"top":0.949094,"width":0.167887,"height":0.015233000000000052}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":-0.003922,"top":-0.001212,"width":0.008627,"height":0.003333},{"left":0.496078,"top":0.042121,"width":0.447451,"height":0.289091}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":-0.003922,"top":-0.001212,"width":0.008627,"height":0.003333},{"left":0.496078,"top":0.042121,"width":0.447451,"height":0.289091}]}