Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys.
From Brian Sutton-Smith
I keep trying to understand the phenomenon of why adults are so literal when children are so imaginative. Toys are a caricature of reality.
Research has shown that children who play often both solitarily and socially become more creative and imaginative than those whose exposure to play and toys is limited.
Children who play regularly with their peers are most likely to achieve the highest levels of adjustment as adults.
It's a mistake to try to use play to deliberately foster developmental progress.
Forget about teaching the children about numbers and colors and the like, and just play with them.
I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives.
The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively.
The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults.
People who play are happier people. And people who don't have access to play tend to be depressed.
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