![]() Haven’t most of us lost the capability of playing? Speaking for myself, I get bored after just ten minutes of playing, often less… In fact, I get exhausted. ![]() But do we really? Do we always know what is best for children or are there some things they know better? Like, how to play. This may just seem like a funny statement because growing up is, of course, something to desire and adults always know best. To this Pippi replies that growing up isn’t something to strive for and then she offers the children some magical pills to prevent them from ever growing up. Last night as I was reading Pippi Longstocking to my children we came across this great passage where the children, Tommy and Annika, tell Pippi that they never want to grow up because adults aren’t fun and don’t know how to play. “Ooh, that you are forced to grow up!” (free translation from Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking in the South Seas, 1948) “They don’t know how to play either,” said Annika. They just have a lot of boring work, stupid clothes and calluses and taxes.” (….) ![]() “I never want to grow up,” he (Tommy) said determinedly. ![]()
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