If you spend any amount of time with groups of children, it’s easy to start creating labels for the stereotypes you might encounter - the children often know these labels too! There’s the cool guy, maybe a class clown, we’ve all met a chatterbox, the star athlete and the popularly depicted quiet kid or wallflower. * This story isn’t about any of those, it’s about a new subcategory which seems to be more prevalent now… I call them, “The Worrier”. ____________________________________ ...

Earlier in the year, the Australian Institute of Play met a local community group called Kingston East Neighbourhood Group (KENG) and we...