Let the Children Play

Me again with some new pictures, If you notices i love to relate what i write with pictures.
This i took 2 days ago in Central Park, a snow day.
It is amazing how much fun you can have with you are child. Does not matter whether you are in Central park or in Tuntudoro park in Mozambique, when you are a child there are no worries. Being a child its the best thing that exist in the world.

It is a shame that some Kids do not have the pleasure to be free as a bird and play as a child should play. However even in extreme situations the child inside of a child always try to come out. You can go to the deeps parts in Africa and you will see a lot of poverty, yet you will see that kids find ingenious ways to enjoy childhood.

“The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.”
Ashley Montagu

Plays its important not only for us the so called Humans...

Various functional theories of play stress that social play is essential for the practice and learning of sex roles, dominance relationships, troop culture, integration of individuals into the troop structure, the control of aggression, etc. Data on squirrel monkeys (Saimiri) in natural environments indicate that social interaction and troop integration can develop in various manners in the absence of social play.

Comparative observations were made on squirrel monkeys in a seminatural environment in Florida and 43 natural environments in Panama, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. There was a broad range of variance in the data on ecology, troop size, troop cohesiveness, average individual distances, frequency of play, etc. In some environments, individuals in the infant and juvenile age classes engaged in social play for approximately 1.5 to 3 hours a day. However, in one environment, not a single incidence of social play occurred during 261 hours of close range observation. The troops in which no play occurred were very cohesive (i.e., they seldom fragmented), and the animals traveled at close individual distances. Agonistic interactions were not uncontrolled. Copulations were observed; and 85 percent of the adult females were accompanied by infants, which indicates a normal rate of reproductive success for the species.

Data are presented on friendly, aggressive, sexual, and spacing behavior in squirrel monkeys. These data indicate that (1) social play is not necessary for the development and/or learning of an adaptive modicum of social interaction patterns and troop cohesion, but (2) the opportunity to play provides learning experiences in which young animals can develop more complex, varied social interaction patterns and stronger habits for engaging in frequent social exchanges.

more information about the role of play visit

The Vital Role of Play in Childhood