play is worth it

There is something deep about play; it goes to the heart of who and what we are. I like culture, not just the ephemeral stuff that flickers past us on the tube, but the big long history of what makes us humans so human. In every generation language and hopes get passed on to be reinvented by the next. Where once-upon-a-time this was the domain of the older kids teaching the younger kids, who taught the younger still we know have a more fragmented world in which grown-ups have to rediscover play.

With any luck, and a little thought, that which is good in us can be given generously away to those little ones we know, whilst our monsters stay under the bed so that they can find and wrestle with their own.

Such is play, and it’s worth it.

About Bee

I, Bee, wound up the big key in the back of welikeplay.org in September ‘07. I’d been a childminder (daycare provider) for 4 years, a stay-at-home-dad for 6 and a teacher of Philosophy and Religion before that. With No2 child starting school, I had another hour in my day, so set about capturing all bits of play in a big ‘ol net of my choosing. And so welikeplay came into being. Childminders liked it, parents liked it, I liked it, so I kept doing it.

And No1 and No2 like it, No3 & No4 like it when they come to visit. No5 & No6 like it when I go over. For they test things to destruction with me. They let me know just how silly I look playing hopscotch. They teach me how to see the world from knee-hight and newness. And everyday we giggle.

Enjoy welikeplay.org,
because we do.

tag... play, philosophising