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Quotation by Bruno Bettelheim
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Bruno Bettelheim (28)Additional Sources
A Good Enough Parent (1987)"Children and Television" Freud's Vienna and Other Essays, Knopf (1989)"Fairy Tale Versus Myth" The Uses of Enchantment, Knopf (1975)The Uses of Enchantment (1975)Related Subjects
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As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys—and plenty of leisure and scope to play with them as he likes, and not just the way adults think proper. This is why he must be given this freedom for his play to be successful and truly serve him well.
Bruno Bettelheim (20th century), Austrian-American child psychologist. A Good Enough Parent, ch. 14 (1987).
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