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The Playground

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In this poem Elizabeth Spires captures the beauty and essence of play as an entryway to real life: ". . . child on either side of me, pale as a star . . . begging to enter the world . . ."

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Stuart Brown: Play Is More than Fun

A pioneer in research on play, Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults—and keeping it up can make us smarter at any age.

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2009
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Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul

We’ve all seen the happiness on the face of a child while playing in the school yard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing across a lawn. This is the joy of play. By definition, play is purposeless, all-consuming, and fun. But as Dr.

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Stuart Brown, Christopher Vaughan
2010
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