Opportunities to develop leisure skills that facilitate self-directed activities remain inequitably distributed in the population. Play is not always nice. The deviance to be found in much of children's play reminds us also of Freud's view of children as polymorphously perverse. But it is the nature of play, after all, to challenge the powers that be and to transform the reality that is given. That is what play offers adults as well as children.
Children just do it better.
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