Interrupting Victor’s blog series for a week!

Children play naturally all day long and often continue to play before, during and after the times adults think they should not be playing. Like creativity, why is play taught out of us? By comparison to children, being on vacation highlighted for me the innate nature of play and that adults turn to play when “out of the office” or on vacation.

I participated in or watched adults playing beach volley ball, pool volley ball, BINGO, card games, trivia and adult drinking games. I watched adults at play inn the water either dock jumping or swim racing. There were very few children where we vacationed, the children that we did see played in the water and the sand with limited “stuff”. I witnessed other activities that could be play such as reading, and snorkeling.

We should not limit our time to play nor should we limit play time for children. Quite the contrary, we all need to play more. Who among us wouldn’t be refreshed by play activities? 

What do you like to play?