Playing with children

For today's Funcast, we find ourselves engaged in a semi-polemic contemplation of vicissitudes of intergenerational play, intergenerational community, intergenerational family, and all things inter, um, generational. It's not a very playful polemic, as polemics go. But it might very well help to move you or someone who needs such movement, to consider more carefully the importance of playing with. It begins:

The separation between parents and children, adolescents and family is so wide that we hardly recognize ourselves in each other. Our generations have become institutionally isolated, divided out into schools, businesses, factories, day care centers, hospitals, rest homes. Our days have become so filled with working and consuming, so consumed by "communication" that with have little time for ourselves, less time for each other, and no time for our community. The result is a steady deterioration of marriage and family, community and planet.

You can, should you find yourself so moved, read the whole of it here.


from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith