13 Jun 2009, 10:59 am
I really like the whole thing of playing (toys, games etc.) and if I ever get to have kids I will value the time I would spend playing with them. I play Pokemon but I would not say it to many people becaure I would get laughed at or treated like a child, I've had enough of that, I had enough of that even as a child. So what that I like looking at toys for ages in toy stores. Toys are fun, games are fun, easter egg hunts are fun. 
13 Jun 2009, 2:17 pm
Kajjie wrote:
I was gonna start a topic on how recently, I went to this thing at the Tate Modern which was like a playground, but with no age restrictions and the dimensions of it were such that adults could play on it. The best bit was this big cylinder which you could get inside and roll about And there were slides, and stuff to climb on, and stuff to balence on. It was great.
I really want to find a grown-up playground now. I don't think play should be limited to kids. My psychotherapist doesn't either. I don't think I'm unusual. I think I actually stopped going in playgrounds because I was physically too big (I don't like very small spaces, which limited my enjoyment of the Tate Modern thing too), rather than because society pressured me to act older, which is why I stopped doing other kid things.
I think most growing up is because of pressure from society. There is nothing stopping grown ups making their own easter egg hunts, or playing hide and seek, other than that most believe it is shameful to behave like a child. I am trying to get rid of this belief and enjoy myself.
I think this is maybe one of the main reasons people have kids. If you have kids, you play kids games with your kids.
And there were slides, and stuff to climb on, and stuff to balence on. It was great. I really want to find a grown-up playground now. I don't think play should be limited to kids. My psychotherapist doesn't either. I don't think I'm unusual. I think I actually stopped going in playgrounds because I was physically too big (I don't like very small spaces, which limited my enjoyment of the Tate Modern thing too), rather than because society pressured me to act older, which is why I stopped doing other kid things.
I think most growing up is because of pressure from society. There is nothing stopping grown ups making their own easter egg hunts, or playing hide and seek, other than that most believe it is shameful to behave like a child. I am trying to get rid of this belief and enjoy myself.
I think this is maybe one of the main reasons people have kids. If you have kids, you play kids games with your kids.
I also think the same. People are afraid to have fun still so they do it in private like I wonder how many adults still watch children shows they grew up with or play with toys still? I doubt they are going to broadcast it to anyone. But if they have kids, they are an excuse for them to have fun in public because people will look at them and think they are just having fun with their children, they can say they watched Bob the Builder with their child and they won't be criticized for it or judged. People will just think they watched it with their child to be with them. When my brother was in 5th grade, his teacher told all her students she watched Teletubbies........with her one year old daughter. Now imagine what their reactions be or what they think of her if she told them she watched them alone?
So yeah I think if grown ups truely weren't into fun stuff, they wouldn't be doing it with their kids because it be boring for them. I heard there are some parents that don't spend time with their kids because they don't know what to do with them. They think they can't play with dolls with their child or watch children shows with them. My mom played with my brothers and I, she played with kid games with us, played Barbies with me, watched kid shows with us but she didn't do them alone. I wonder if some grown ups make themselves do those things even though they aren't interested because they are just spending time with their kids so inside them, they are bored and not enjoying themselves.
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13 Jun 2009, 2:19 pm
