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Mothers have given up time to play.
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Research is finding that play is what enables humans to create, improvise, imagine, innovate, learn, solve problems, be smart, open, curious, resilient, and happy.
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Active play… is timeless, like flow, and crucial to humans from the moment of birth to the last breath.
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Play is… a state of mind, an attitude of lightness, curiosity, wonder than can infuse any situation.
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Play takes one thing… and turns it into something else, something unexpected. A dance. It takes chaos and finds order. It’s based on trust, that no one’s going to get hurt. And it doesn’t seem to have any point.
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Children who have more time for free, unstructured, and rough-and-tumble play tend to be more socially and academically proficient as they grow.
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As adults, play is what keeps our brains flexible. And that… is what enables our species to innovate, create, solve old problems in new ways, and continuously adapt our behavior to thrive…
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…for those who do not make time for play – in either attitude or activity – is often joylessness, rigidity, addiction, workaholism, diminished curiosity, and… depression.
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…rewards can perform a weird sort of behavioral alchemy: They can transform an interesting task into a drudge. They can turn play into work.
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Left to their own devices… children seek out flow with the inevitability of a natural law. So should we all.
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