I’ve been lurking, but I’m still here, gratefully so.
Gonna take a ‘proud mama’ moment:
https://www.aces.edu/blog/topics/home-family/transforming-playtime-with-the-magic-of-loose-parts/
So sad to me that this approach seems to be missing from child-rearing as well as in pre-schools and schools (maybe not so [much] with homeschoolers).