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Media Highlight: Dalhousie's Michael Ungar discusses the importance of play for child development

Posted by Communications and Marketing on July 25, 2017 in Media Highlights

Call it a fact of life, but being teased or excluded on the playground is almost as hard to avoid as the occasional bruises and scraped knees of childhood.

Michael Ungar, director of the Resilience Research Centre at Dalhousie University, said unhindered play is crucial for learning life skills and building resilience.

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