Wednesday, May 15, 2002
Yup. Every bit as deliciously fun as you could possibly imagine, this new granddaughter of mine, this incredibly small, finely detailed, completely packaged Lily DeKoven Weidenbach.
On my way to Austin I sought solace in the dense pages of "Theory in Context and Out" the third volume of a collection of play and culture studies, edited by Stuart Reifer. In the first article, "What is Play For?" by Garry Chick, I gleaned these especially delicious tidbits.
"The behaviors exhibited in animal play seem to be taken from the survival related contexts known affectionately as the"four Fs": that is, fighting, fleeing, feeding and mating"
and this...."Ghiselin suggested that little boys playing soldiers are not practicing to slaugher their fellow men, but futhering peaceful life within the own society. The way to make a killer out of a child is to put him into a genuinely competitive situation - such as Little League Baseball."
On my way to Austin I sought solace in the dense pages of "Theory in Context and Out" the third volume of a collection of play and culture studies, edited by Stuart Reifer. In the first article, "What is Play For?" by Garry Chick, I gleaned these especially delicious tidbits.
"The behaviors exhibited in animal play seem to be taken from the survival related contexts known affectionately as the"four Fs": that is, fighting, fleeing, feeding and mating"
and this...."Ghiselin suggested that little boys playing soldiers are not practicing to slaugher their fellow men, but futhering peaceful life within the own society. The way to make a killer out of a child is to put him into a genuinely competitive situation - such as Little League Baseball."
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