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Hello, friends. Welcome to the Brave Writer podcast. I'm Melissa Wiley, Julie Bogart's co-host. Today, we're excited to share with you Julie's talk about the importance of play and how play fosters learning. This is a rich and juicy exploration of the critical role of play in your children's education.

Julie also digs into what it means to be a lifelong learner and how you are using play right now in your own life to learn,

and you may not even realize it. So here's Julie. Enjoy. Welcome. Tonight, tonight we're going to talk about the role

of play in education. And I want us to begin first by just noticing the feeling you have around the word play. So if you would in chat, when you hear

somebody say, kids should play, or learning can happen through play, pause for a moment,

check in with yourself and give me a true reaction to that phrase. Learning can happen through play.

Let me hear what you have to say. How? Great question, Catherine. Kathleen, 100% agrees. So does Stacey.

I may not have done much right, but I've done that. Play is how we learn as kids and adults. I need more play in my life. Play is critical. Absolutely, but what about older kids? I agree, but how much. These are wonderful questions. I'll be honest. Play is hard for me to engage in. I will tell you something that happened to me and And make sure you select everyone in the blue bubble

so we can all read your amazing comments. Otherwise, it just goes to me and Farsana. One of the things

that I remember as a very vivid memory of early childhood with my children, I think I had three

kids under five at that point. And I remember vividly sitting on the

floor playing with the same toys that my children have been playing with, right? Because I had three

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