Ah, play time. Blue Peter, the Soup Dragon, Action Man ... Careful, you're not only revealing your age, you're disassociated from children's lives today.
What do you mean? In my day, all I needed for a good time was a stick and a ball of twine. Well, it might have to be a computerised stick nowadays.
We played street football until the sun went down. Reminiscence alert!
How many children do you see playing in the street? We read so much in the press about children becoming couch potatoes, with the resultant rise in childhood obesity, or children becoming addicted to computer games, or children being forbidden to play outdoors because it annoys the neighbours, which feeds fears about the rise in anti-social behaviour. Considering its importance, it's surprising play has received only minor attention from the Government until now. Play is about creativity, autonomy, emotional health and so much more.
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