2023-11-12 03:15:12
In the shade of a tree, a girl plays with two-color threads; she tries to weave a bracelet. She has two plants left unsold that, due to the heat, show sad leaves; or resigned.
In the second hour of class, a child plays with his imagination. Mathematics is not his favorite subject and November has seemed eternal. At this moment, and in a duo with Julián Álvarez, they score the winning goal in the final of the finals.
He has been reading and writing since he was 4 years old, playing the violin since he was 5, and, already in first grade, he solves complex calculations. At times she misses playing: that is, doing things that, even if they go wrong, her parents will still be just as proud.
Sitting in a corner, a child plays silently with two pieces of wood; They are strikingly the same even though he found them in the middle of the collapse of his house following the attack.
A few minutes from the end, the forward team dares to make one more play. They win by a good margin and it seems like the right time. However, the shouts from the bench bring her back to reality: they are competing, not playing.
Since he was 13 he can’t stand his parents. She feels that everything regarding her is forbidden and that she is not understood. However, she and at times, she longs to play and laugh with them.
Play forever
Children’s play is something really serious, which should never be confused with entertainment.
Jumping in a ball pit is fun, but it only becomes a game when it is shared; imitating acrobatics, succeeding and failing in falls, but always together with peers who mark limits and hierarchies.
It is possible to play at school and not just at recess. During class hours it is enough to gather the teacher’s passion, some common humor and recover the taste for knowledge.
Also, many family dilemmas might be solved by playing; talking, negotiating everything that helps you understand, forgive and, hopefully, move forward.
Playing is much more than kicking penalties. It means being challenged for misbehavior and then being embraced. It is to be once postponed and then to be eagerly sought following. It is being last in line, but knowing that, finally, your time will come.
Furthermore: certain foods are playable if, in fact, you value having food on your plate. The same happens with shelter, with obligations and even with desires.
Adults should not forget to play as a couple, since children – relentless observers of the adult world – are thirsty for models of love.
Playing is perhaps the most important thing in childhood, as long as each one is the protagonist of their own life, scriptwriter of their plots, set designer of their places and author of the dialogues.
Going through childhood playing – in the light moments, the dark ones and in all the grays in between – allows you to choose your own paths. Perhaps not too far from what their parents dreamed of (or what they did not achieve), but with a pinch of originality.
Before 5 years old it is simple; At those ages, play is inevitable. The problem appears later, when children’s busy schedules relegate play to brief moments when the power goes out or the batteries run out.
Or when available adults allow themselves to play by removing banality from the verb.
Recognizing that, by playing, life becomes kinder.
* Doctor
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