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Play begins as a major feature of mammalian evolution and remains as a major method of becoming reconciled with our present universe.
People who play are happier people. And people who don't have access to play tend to be depressed.
What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.
A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine.
One thinks of toys and play as an area of great novelty and potentiality where all sorts of responses can be developed. The fact that adults are allowing their imaginations to have activity through toy kinds of objects is a further reflection of the belief in the imagination of the adult mind.
It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast.
The main point for me is that toys are incredibly more important than we realized.
For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish.
Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.
The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.
It's a mistake to try to use play to deliberately foster developmental progress.
The connections in the brain fade away unless used. We know that early stimulation of children leads to higher cognitive scores.
The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively.
I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives.
Children who play regularly with their peers are most likely to achieve the highest levels of adjustment as adults.
Despite the efforts of some parents, children still tend to act out the traditional sex roles of our culture. The child's peer group may have more of an influence over this than the parents.
If you are going to take away war toys, then what are you to replace them with? Children need to feel courageous, brave, and assertive. They need to feel strong; that is the purpose of their play.
Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys.
