Games that flow from the moment

My son writes:

"I came across this on page 30: 'The real point of the story is that the best games with little children flow easily and naturally from the situation of the moment. We are not likely to get good games by planning them far in advance, but we probably will get them if we play with children just for the fun of it. And whatever the game is, we must be ready to give it up, instantly and without regret, if the child is not enjoying it. It’s tempting to think, "If I can just get him to do this for a while, he will enjoy it." But he won't – and we won't.""

This is a piece of hard-won wisdom. Cherish it. For it not only describes how to play with children. It explains, simply and universally, how to play at all.

Talking about all this flowing from the moment reminds me: Today we've been married for 40 years.