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The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors PEP Talks with Deborah MacNamara

by The Georgia Straight Staff on May 8th, 2013 at 4:16 PM
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      The Vancouver International Children’s Festival presents PEP Talks, a new speaker series aimed at giving parents solutions for raising millennial children. Vancouver-based Deborah MacNamara is the third speaker in the series, and on May 15, she will be giving a talk titled, “The Lost Art of Play” at the Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton Street).

      The Lost Art of Play looks at the importance of play and discusses how playtime helps develop a child’s brain. “Children who lack environments that foster play actually have brains that are 20 to 30 percent less developed in capacity,” MacNamara states in a news release.

      MacNamara will talk about the pressures on children to learn to become socialized and how playing isn’t as valued in today’s society. MacNamara is a clinical counsellor and educator in private practice.

      Tickets to PEP Talks are $35 and net proceeds go to the Vancouver International Children’s Festival. Tickets can be purchased online.

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