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The Work of Play
A Mom Struggles to Learn Proper "Play" Technique
By Mary Kendall Brady
together? This type of interaction is, paradoxically, the work of not working. It is the work of simply being. In order to just "be," one needs a luxurious approach to time.
This is not easy in an agenda-driven, time-is-money society. But it is certainly possible to reclaim this pace if we learn to turn off the voice that tells us playing is a waste of time or that says playing must have a purpose. This type of pace and play means we see value in rocking our babies, value in watching wind in the trees or the trajectory of a bird, value in, as one mother told me, tracing her finger across her baby's face. It is re-learning wonder at the smallest of things: the bend of fingers, the sound of water, the feel of hair.
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