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Re: Why we stop playing: The science behind moving from playing with toys to collecti
Maybe my brain is a bit broken (actually, it is, I take pills for it), but I still make little stories and whatnot with figures and other inanimate objects. And bits of food. Normally it all just stays in my head, though. Being a responsible adult in socially acceptable ways has it's downsides.
Hell, I could spend an entire weekend alone in my basement popping open bins and having some pretty epic war, or olympics, or picnic, or whatever my mind comes up with on the fly. I don't because of the cleanup and other adult responsibilities.
My difficulty in playing with the toys with my son is probably a level of complexity (since he's 3) and because I don't want to step on his creativity.
I let him take the lead, and things sort of fall flat in my head because I'm going at the level of Robot Chicken, and he's at the level of a Ninja Turtle teaching Lightning McQueen how to cut salad because Leonardo has a sword.
Nothing wrong with that, its funny and original and surprisingly nurturing. I can't use high adult concepts and swearing and all that during this sort of play. As his level matures, more things will become complex. I walk a fine line. I don't want to push him, and I don't want to stifle him.
Sadly, he'll eventually leave me and this stuff behind.
Last edited by Shepp; 05-31-2017 at 12:03 AM.
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