conuly

Yeah, but who says you can only teach within the (idiotic) system? I started in the system, but then jumped ship when I had my own child and went to nannying instead, where I could teach my own way.

Childrens' play is a cultural artifact in many ways - the games and songs and skills that get passed down from older to younger children; stuff one can make out of bits-and-bobs, pranks to play, things to do - like Roxaboxen (http://www.amazon.com/Roxaboxen-Alice-Mclerran/dp/0688075924), right? But these days families are smaller, extended families don't stay together so much, and unrelated children of different ages don't mingle in free-range child-directed interaction any more, so the child-culture has become impoverished.