My Connection to Play

These quotes reminded me of play when I was little:

“Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning” –Fred Rogers

“Play is the beginning of knowledge” –George Dorsey

 

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation” –Plato

“Play is training for the enexpected” –Marc Bekoff

My dad was always gone due to his job but my mom and grandma always encouraged me and my sister to go outside and play.  We would stay outside for hours exploring but we never left the yard unless mom was with us. We would ride our bikes, go for walks, roller skate, jump rope and even go to the park or the beach.  I remembered when I was in the second grade, we had to do experiments for school and my mom and I created a color wheel and that is how I learned how to mix colors together to make another color.  We did not watch TV much, when I was little but in today’s world TV is the biggest baby sitter for some children. 

As I got older, I did not go outside as much because my mother became a single mom and had to work.  She would not let us go out unless she was home, but I still was learning while I was staying inside. I learned how to wash clothes, clean dishes, and even taught myself how to cook.  When I became a mom I continued to learn by taking care of my children, playing with them and watch them learn.