THE DAILY BELLELLI: The Power of Play by David Elkind

"Perhaps because we attend to children's games primarily when they cause us annoyance, we fail to see how common self-initiated games are to child life. But if we are open to looking for them, children's games are all about us.

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Although there are fewer spaces for contemporary children to play, they find them wherever they can. Children's play in the confined space set aside for it by adults often differs from the play that goes on when children are in open spaces and free from adult supervision." David Elkind