NP - All Work and No Play Make the Baining the "Dullest Culture on Earth"

Diane Caudillo dianecaudillo at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 10:55:57 CDT 2012


to live amongst the Baining sounds like hell to me. stopping babies from crawling & children from playing: seems like serious restrictions on brain development. I wonder how they got started on that path? 
Diane


Diane Caudillo
pax, amor, et lepos in iocando

On Aug 1, 2012, at 7:21 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201207/all-work-and-no-play-make-the-baining-the-dullest-culture-earth
> 
> The Baining believe, quite correctly, that play is the natural
> activity of children, and precisely for that reason they do what they
> can to discourage or prevent it.



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