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Battle sounds fill the forest, swords clatter and arrows whizz through the air, groans and victorious shouts ring out. Huzzah! It’s not a medieval war you’re witnessing – but children playing with weapons. In today’s episode we talk about this controversial type of rough and tumble play.

👉  Nicki and Vicci Share

• The six types of Risky Play 
• What 'Rough and Tumble' play is
• The value of rough play
• How rough play relates to socialising
• How we can help communicate safe boundaries
• The evidence that shows there is no link between weapon play and real-life aggression
• About consensual play
• The big concepts weapon play highlights in children
• The importance of competition and collaboration
• The role weapon plays in child development 
• The signs to look out for to signify everyone is still having fun
• Helpful phrases for supervising weapon play

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Vicci Oliver and Nicki Farrell are adventurous nature play makers, risk-takers, children’s rights advocates and the co-founders of Wildlings Forest School. We are the hosts of the ‘Raising Wildlings’ podcast and we put the dirt back in childhood.

During any Wildlings Forest School program, you are likely to find Wildlings up trees, sliding down mud slides, whittling with pocket knives, lighting fires and building rafts. We let kids, be kids - because children can’t learn to protect nature if they’ve never had a childhood in it.

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