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Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.
Brian Sutton-Smith
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A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine.
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The main point for me is that toys are incredibly more important than we realized.
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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.
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For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish.
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We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it's full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living - the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living - is play.
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If you are going to take away war toys, then what are you to replace them with? Children need to feel courageous, brave, and assertive. They need to feel strong; that is the purpose of their play.
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Play begins as a major feature of mammalian evolution and remains as a major method of becoming reconciled with our present universe.
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Despite the efforts of some parents, children still tend to act out the traditional sex roles of our culture. The child's peer group may have more of an influence over this than the parents.
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To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed, as if one is assured of one's prospects.
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What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.
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Play is always a fantasy, but once you get into the frame, it is quite real, and everything you do is real. You put acres and acres of real movement and real action and real belief in it.
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