Our basic ideas about how to parent are encrusted with deeply felt emotions and many myths. One of the myths of parenting is that ...it is always fun and games, joy and delight. Everyone who has been a parent will testify that it is also anxiety, strife, frustration, and even hostility. Thus most major parenting- education formats deal with parental emotions and attitudes and, to a greater or lesser extent, advocate that the emotional component is more important than the knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles,... but ours seems to be based on war and games.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything li...ke order and neatness is banished from our presence as a nuisance--old letters and old boots and shoes, duds clean and duds dirty, books and newspapers, tooth-brushes, shoe-brushes, and clothes-brushes, all heaped together on chairs, settees, etc., in dusty and "most admired confusion." Now, what is there imaginable in clean, tidy private life equal to this?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does "just for fun" and things t...hat are "educational." The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As long as lightly all their livelong sessions, Like a yardful of schoolboys out at recess... Before their plays and games were organized, They yelling mix tag, hide-and-seek, hopscotch, And leapfrog in each other's way all's well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've always had the notion that people go to spectator sports to have fun and then they grab the paper to read about it and have f...un again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
PLAYING SHOULD BE FUN! In our great eagerness to teach our children we studiously look for "educational" toys, games with built-in... lessons, books with a "message." Often these "tools" are less interesting and stimulating than the child's natural curiosity and playfulness. Play is by its very nature educational. And it should be pleasurable. When the fun goes out of play, most often so does the learning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »