​​​​Morgan Belveal

In education, atmosphere can mean the difference between a student succeeding and student falling through the cracks. When we take a minute to compare the various education methods afforded to the young people in our nation, the decision to place your child in one school or another can be pretty daunting. When we expand that view to the global map and we look at schools like the kindergarten in Fuji, the comparison shines even more light on the situation. Today, the majority

Children’s access to the world that we live in is consistently restricted by adults, society, and cultural norms. Even when the circumstances are not explicitly restrictive, it is hard to find a circumstance where young people are free to experience a park or playground without a list of rules or direct supervision. In a more direct way, children have limited access to parts of their world. If a parent were to bring their child to an office building for a day their environmen

Play is a conversation topic that leads us quickly to profess nostalgic words of adoration about our past engagements. Whether it was climbing trees, board games, or hide and go seek, we all like to assume that play is one thing we have in common. At its surface, play is a common thread through each child’s memory train but if you look much deeper, it is easy to understand that the definition and methods of play are likely to change from person to person. Play is, in fact, as