Showing posts with label play. Show all posts
Showing posts with label play. Show all posts
Thursday, 31 October 2019

Is play meaningful? A comment on the purposeful life.

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I blame St Paul: When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put ...
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Thursday, 15 February 2018

"What's the point of a Secret Club if it doesn't have a Secret Fort?" Building child-friendly cities.

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Or at least the rose-tinted suburbs of my youth. As a seven-year-old, I walked with my sister to the bus stop at the end of The Glade, got ...
Saturday, 13 January 2018

How Dungeons & Dragons changed the world...

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Mark, from his place in France, has written about computer games. But first he tells us where it started: I suppose it started at uni, with...
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Thursday, 7 December 2017

Quote of the day: On hanging out

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Fast food shops provide a place for kids to hang out : Having saved the children from the perils of walking to school and active play we ar...
Wednesday, 30 August 2017

Children in cities

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I've observed before that cities aren't designed for children. And that this is something of a problem if we are to become a more u...
Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Making a 'sustainable' park - thoughts from a visit to Rome

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"Towards a sustainable park" proclaims the blurb on the posters that have been carefully pinned to the solid but, one hopes, te...
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Thursday, 28 January 2016

Ban everything, ban it now. For the children.

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Back in early 1970s South London, I used to drag my self from bed, throw on clothes and some breakfast down my gullet, get on my bike and...
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Sunday, 10 March 2013

Welcome to Midwich - New Puritans, schools and the brainwashing of children

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The New Puritan agenda is at its most insistent in schools: Mr Ayers also spoke out after his son had a fun-size pack of Maltesers c...
Tuesday, 20 March 2012

A playground for people not a showcase for developers - thoughts on Bradford City Centre

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I spent a pleasant hour talking to Jim Greenhalgh from the T&A this afternoon. He’d rung me with a question along the lines of: “so h...
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Sunday, 10 July 2011

New Puritan advice to mums - allow your children to play?

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**** The nanny-in-chief is to issue guidance to all those Mums and Dads who don't know the bleedin' obvious: The health g...
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Thursday, 7 July 2011

Tenets of the New Puritans #2: "It's for the children" - the curse of the play strategy

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“It’s for the children” or “think of the children” has become a core mantra for the New Puritan – we should hide cigarettes and alcohol just...