PLAYBORHOOD.COM Archives

• Bright Spots

  • High Gasoline Prices are Good for Children
  • Why Are Cruise Ships Better Communities Than Our Neighborhoods?
  • The Waters: Self-Selection and the Pioneer Effect
  • The Waters: How Town Planning and Architecture Help Create Community
  • The Waters: Kids’ Lives
  • The Waters: A Very Tight-Knit Community
  • Kids’ Outdoor Club:  The Next Best Thing to Neighborhood Play
  • One Person can Make a Playborhood
  • “A Kid’s Paradise” in Alabama
  • Hang-Out Fridays
  • The Woman of My Dreams
  • Kids at Play - A Christmas Miracle?
  • A Playborhood in Darien, Connecticut
  • First Playborhood Local Site Launched for Palo Alto / Menlo Park (CA)
  • Siena’s Contradas:  The Best Neighborhoods in the World
  • College Terrace (Palo Alto, CA) – what does it take to make a neighborhood family-friendly?
  • N Street:  Making it All Work
  • N Street:  Where Everyone Knows Your Name
  • A New Playmate for My Son Marco!
  • N Street:  Kids’ Lives
  • N Street:  An Introduction to Cohousing and “Retrofit” Cohousing

• Neighborhood

  • The Waters: Self-Selection and the Pioneer Effect
  • The Waters: How Town Planning and Architecture Help Create Community
  • The Waters: Kids’ Lives
  • The Waters: A Very Tight-Knit Community
  • The Woman of My Dreams
  • Kids at Play - A Christmas Miracle?
  • A Playborhood in Darien, Connecticut
  • Imported Playmates: Our Guest Worker Program
  • Siena’s Contradas:  The Best Neighborhoods in the World
  • College Terrace (Palo Alto, CA) – what does it take to make a neighborhood family-friendly?
  • N Street:  Where Everyone Knows Your Name
  • N Street:  Kids’ Lives
  • Halloween Street
  • Attention, Realtors!
  • The Importance of Parks
  • Why Your Neighbors’ Kids’ Schedules Are Your Business
  • Is Driving Your Kids Around Safer Than Letting Them Roam Outside on Their Own?
  • What Kids Want Most in a House Is Not in the House
  • Playgroups and Playdates vs. Playborhoods, Oh My…

• Nostalgia

  • Warm and Fuzzies for Bill and Hillary as Kids
  • The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
  • My Own Childhood Abduction and Sexual Incident
  • A Suburban Childhood of Play in the 1960s and 70s
  • Play and Poverty in 1930s and 40s Pittsburgh
  • The Wonder Years: Nostalgia for the “Golden Age” of American Childhood

• Resources

  • Warm and Fuzzies for Bill and Hillary as Kids
  • The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
  • Idealism vs. Experience in Parenting
  • Creating Future Environmentalists: Let them Play in the Woods!
  • Learning Through Play: If Rats Get It, Why Can’t Kids?
  • First Canadian Local Site Launched!
  • Playborhood Survey IV:  School District and Type of Street are Most Important . . . Or Are They?
  • Playborhood Survey III: Parents Are Willing to Pay for Play
  • First Playborhood Local Site Launched for Palo Alto / Menlo Park (CA)
  • Playborhood Survey II:  Parents Just Want Girls (and Boys) to Have Fun
  • Playborhood Survey I:  Kids Aren’t Playing Much, and Parents Aren’t Happy About It
  • Playborhood Survey:  Who Responded
  • Please Tell Us What You Think in the Playborhood Survey!

• Solutions

  • High Gasoline Prices are Good for Children
  • Reason #2 to Talk to Your Neighbors - Mindfulness
  • Reason #1 to Talk to Neighbors - It’s an Investment
  • Being a Weirdo Family - Is It Worth It?
  • The Waters: A Very Tight-Knit Community
  • Learning Through Play: If Rats Get It, Why Can’t Kids?
  • One Person can Make a Playborhood
  • “A Kid’s Paradise” in Alabama
  • Imagine There’s No Fences, It’s Easy if You Try…
  • Hang-Out Fridays
  • Event on Neighborhood Play in Palo Alto, CA
  • The Federal Government’s Role in Promoting Neighborhood Play
  • N Street:  Making it All Work
  • N Street:  An Introduction to Cohousing and “Retrofit” Cohousing
  • Attention, Realtors!
  • Solutions: An Overview
  • The Importance of Parks
  • Why Your Neighbors’ Kids’ Schedules Are Your Business

• The Problem

  • Children Deserve the Promise of the Declaration of Independence
  • Being a Weirdo Family - Is It Worth It?
  • The Problems of Boys and the Demise of Independent Play
  • Free Play Doesn’t Have to Mean Unsupervised
  • The Zero-sum Myth for Kids’ Lives
  • Imagine There’s No Fences, It’s Easy if You Try…
  • Parent Peer Pressure
  • All the Media Exposure Doesn’t Have an Impact in Stopping the Obesity Crisis:  Why?
  • “Real Worlds,” Virtual Worlds, and Children
  • Why is it a Good Idea for Adults to Control Kids’ Sports?
  • Walking or Biking to School
  • We’re Raising a Generation of Organization Men (or Women)
  • Is it All Worth It?
  • Palo Alto (CA) Weekly Article on Play and Playborhood
  • Playborhood Survey I:  Kids Aren’t Playing Much, and Parents Aren’t Happy About It
  • How Overplaying Fear Harms Children From a Therapist’s Point of View
  • Should Play End With Preschool?
  • Is Driving Your Kids Around Safer Than Letting Them Roam Outside on Their Own?
  • American 6-12 year old Children’s Outdoor and Indoor Leisure Time, 1997 to 2003
  • Mike’s Manifesto
  • What Kids Want Most in a House Is Not in the House
  • Playgroups and Playdates vs. Playborhoods, Oh My…

• from Playborhood Berkeley

  • Recess, The Final Frontier
  • Frowning and Fighting: The Laws of Fort Play
  • Pick-Up Touch Football!
  • The Freedom and Fun of Forts
  • Playborhood Local Site Launched for Berkeley

• from Playborhood Oakville North

  • Under Pressure
  • Whatever Happened to the Corner Store?

• from Playborhood Palo Alto / Menlo Park

  • Elementary Schools Are Enemies of Play
  • How We (Finally) Found a House to Buy
  • Playing Until the Sun Goes Down
  • Guerilla Playborhood Hunting Techniques IV: Visit the Neighborhood and Talk to Neighbors
  • Guerilla Playborhood Hunting Techniques III: Research Neighbors Online
  • Guerilla Playborhood Hunting Techniques II: Research Neighborhood Reputations
  • Guerilla Playborhood Hunting Techniques I: Introduction
  • A Reggio-Emilia Preschool, Italian-Style (or why Bing Nursery School may not be perfect…)
  • Picking a Preschool:  Play-based vs. Structured is One Choice, But There are Many More
  • Hot Wheels on the Sidewalk!
  • Social Class and Neighborliness
  • Raise Local!
  • Summers: Skill-Building or Neighborhood Fun?
  • All Work and No Play…