It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish.
I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
It's a mistake to try to use play to deliberately foster developmental progress.
Play is the work of childhood.