11 May 2012

When play is a shock

My new apartment is situated with a small playground right behind the bedroom window.  It's kind of a cute playground with a small slide, a small jungle gym and that soft ground that playgrounds these days have.
Back playground.

I love the evenings because this is when small children play outside in the back lot and on the playground.  Some days, they are having so much fun that I can hear them screaming and laughing while sitting inside in the front room.  I have seen them riding around on scooters, playing tag, just running around the building blocks, and even playing Red Rover.  (I don't think the little 3-5 year olds understood the correct rules about sending a person over and either keeping them on your team or the person stealing one of your team members.)  They are having fun, they are playing outside, they are exercising.

They are being kids.

I am so amazed by these children.

I really cannot remember when last I saw such impromptu play by young children.

There are a few times when I see kids in a playground at a park, but it is rare to see kids playing in a neighborhood these days.

These days.

I sound like I'm in my 80s or something.

But it really is an anomaly to see kids doing more than just playing video games or Tweeting each other in the 2000s.  And people wonder why there are so many obese and morbidly obese people in high schools and even in middle schools.

Hopefully, these young peoples' play continues as they get older.

10 comments:

  1. I love the sound of laughter as children play! It's the purest music :)

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  2. Kids at play are awesome to see and hear!

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    1. They really are! The joy and the delight they experience from the simplest things is really wonderful!

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  3. I do enjoy watching kids run around and play. Makes me want to get up and join the chase:)
    Happy weekend!
    Nutschell
    www.thewritingnut.com

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    1. They do make you reminisce on the old days when we were young and had all the energy they possess!

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  4. I love to see kids playing! I'm so lucky that what I do includes play-based learning: it's so much fun to give them a task and have them go at it. Kids need to have a chance to be KIDS, something that I think is hard to remember in this age of technology and over-scheduling.

    I just put a "no-electronics" clause in the rules for the camp I run. We have recess, and I want the kids to be engaging each other during that time, not their iPhones!

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    1. You are definitely lucky to experience that regularly!

      I love that you will unplug your kids for your camp!! How great to help them socialize with people out loud that they will be around!

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  5. I Love taking my kids to the park, the city is really trying to make them better and more of them,

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    1. Isn't it a joy! Glad your area is trying to improve the parks around you. Hopefully, that continues to happen everywhere.

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