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Since I posted about what all we played outdoors as kids a few minutes ago I have remembered many other things and ways we played. This is why I am against having school all year like the Chinese etc. I believe that true playing develops kids mentally, spiritually and physically in ways that stiff, institutionalized (now also often propagandized) schools cannot. I think that the fact that American kids were (in the past) such great players is what helped us develop our Nation in such creative productive ways. Schools are for learning facts. Play is for developing free thinking and imagination, not to mention inspiration and happiness. Take away kid's play and you take away their soul's development.

88 posted on 05/19/2016 4:39:41 PM PDT by Bellflower (It's not that there isn't any evidence of God, it's that everything is evidence of God.)

Play is for developing free thinking and imagination, not to mention inspiration and happiness. Take away kid's play and you take away their soul's development.

Post of the year!

This needs to be placed, in one foot high lettering, at the entrance to every public school and Board of Education meeting room and office in the USA.

I truly believe that the time off during the Summer months allowing children to play and think freely is why the USA is the most inventive country in the world.