PLAY

"My Connections to Play"

Quotes

Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult.

EUGENE IONESCO, Present Past / Past Present

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.

    Kay Redfield Jamiso
Contemporary American professor of psychiatry

I remember living in Puerto Rico, in a mountain located in Canovanas (really rural area) around that time of my life. My mother used to tell us (my sister, brother, and cousins) to get out of the house and use our imagination to play. We lived at the top of a mountain and at the back side of the mountain there was a river that went all around of the town.  When my mom used to kick us out of the house, my sister used to pack a backpack with water, threats, and first aid supplies and off we went. I remember being gone for hours at a time. I remember getting in the deeper parts of the river, looking for animals or weird looking flowers.  I see my childhood like the best part of my life, we were encouraged to have fun and believe in something more than games or television.

Play is so much different now than before; I have three small children that don’t leave my side for anything. Violence has reached such a high degree that no one is completely safe and children less. I feel bad because I work so much that I don’t have the time I would like to have to take my children to the park, beach, or something where they can use their imagination without worries or judgments.  

This are pictures of my children at the beach and at the part; 

 

These are pictures of my children at either the beach or a park