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The main point for me is that toys are incredibly more important than we realized.

What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.

Brian Sutton-Smith

Children who play regularly with their peers are most likely to achieve the highest levels of adjustment as adults.

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Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage.

Brian Sutton-Smith

For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish.

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To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed, as if one is assured of one's prospects.

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The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively.

Brian Sutton-Smith

The main point for me is that toys are incredibly more important than we realized.

Brian Sutton-Smith

We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it's full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living - the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living - is play.

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Play begins as a major feature of mammalian evolution and remains as a major method of becoming reconciled with our present universe.

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People who play are happier people. And people who don't have access to play tend to be depressed.

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Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.

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If you are going to take away war toys, then what are you to replace them with? Children need to feel courageous, brave, and assertive. They need to feel strong; that is the purpose of their play.

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Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys.

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One thinks of toys and play as an area of great novelty and potentiality where all sorts of responses can be developed. The fact that adults are allowing their imaginations to have activity through toy kinds of objects is a further reflection of the belief in the imagination of the adult mind.

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Forget about teaching the children about numbers and colors and the like, and just play with them.

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Despite the efforts of some parents, children still tend to act out the traditional sex roles of our culture. The child's peer group may have more of an influence over this than the parents.

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A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine.

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