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Play and motor development

Movement through play—climbing, balancing, falling and getting up—builds the neural pathways for coordination, proprioception, and spatial reasoning in ways directed exercise can't match because play is driven by curiosity, not compliance. A child who plays develops a relationship with their body as an instrument of exploration rather than a problem to be fixed.

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