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Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage.

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The connections in the brain fade away unless used. We know that early stimulation of children leads to higher cognitive scores.

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A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself.

From Brian Sutton-Smith

Play begins as a major feature of mammalian evolution and remains as a major method of becoming reconciled with our present universe.

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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.

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To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed, as if one is assured of one's prospects.

From Brian Sutton-Smith

What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.

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Play is always a fantasy, but once you get into the frame, it is quite real, and everything you do is real. You put acres and acres of real movement and real action and real belief in it.

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We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it's full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living - the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living - is play.

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For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish.

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