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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure what article you're reading. I guess I can try to make it clearer for you with another one some day when I have more time, but basically these articles are saying that children need to be taught motor skills. You can't always just have them run on the same playground day after day without any help and expect them to pick up all the skills they need. How do they even play catch if they don't have an adult? Have you ever seen two children 3 or 4 years old try to play catch? Stay at home moms are not just sipping coffee and chatting with the other moms while these kids are at the park. Sure they do have their children play by themselves, but they are swinging their kids, holding them while they try the monkey bars so they can do them at 5 instead of finally allowing them at age 5 to try it on their own, they're playing ball with their kids, they allow their kids to walk up a slide to develop arm muscles. This is a much different experience than if you have a child in a daycare all day long and the teachers do not think it's their job to help with gross motor skills in any way and tell your child that they can barely do anything on the equipment for safety reasons.

"[b]Like any skill, there needs to be instruction, there needs to be practice, there needs to be feedback. That's how children master these motor skills[/b]."

[b]Safety concerns[/b] were cited most frequently as a concern for both parents [b]and teachers [/b]that ended up being a barrier to physical activity.

they are often raised by single mothers who are working multiple jobs and don't have time to [b]supervise[/b] them outside," Goodway said

Preliminary results suggest that disadvantaged children who are [b]taught[/b] motor skills as preschoolers can make "huge gains."
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