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Play *is* the joyful — and thus self-reinforcing — practice of encountering risk (or novelty, which implies risk) within parameters that effectively-but-imperfectly mitigate the long tail of the downside. Physical risk, social risk, ego risk. There is no perfectly safe play.https://twitter.com/HeatherEHeying/status/1153356230066225153 …
When we prevent kids from free play — which we *necessarily* do if we're peering over their shoulder the entire time — we prevent kids from developing intuitions around risk and strategies for managing it. It's not just the theft of childhood, but the theft of adulthood.
Perfect example. Remove all risk of harm from a playground, and you wind up with stairs and a walkway. Fun!https://twitter.com/ebenwert/status/1153368269476306944?s=21 …
It's simulating an environment for real dominance, and ultimately destroys the capacity for any play. If I beat you at Monopoly, I don't want you to piss yourself, because that indicates future games are out. Play is iterative. This sort of thing is intended to create finality.
Play has actually been studied pretty extensively! A big tip-off is that even animals, including non-domesticated animals, do it. A lot. Scientists have been very curious about why they would indulge in "wasteful" high-energy behavior
If there was, you wouldn’t really encounter risk.
I very much agree with you on how critical play is--for both adults and mini-adults. You wrote a while ago about your difficulties with sports and it really saddened me. They can be such a perfect arena of play.
Lots of play in an environment often just next door: skateparks. Kids are progressing faster and so bear more risk than each prior generation (true for decades now). Parental supervision or safety equipment are not credible and yet skatepark terrain grows ever more gnarly.
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