Forum on Children and Violence , an umbrella group of children's charities set up after the murder of James Bulger, says nurseries can lead the way on violence prevention if adults try to teach a bit of friendly cooperation. Their bete noir is the deliberately small number of seats . In the game, two rows of chairs are lined up back to back, with one chair less than the number of players. Music plays and everyone wanders in a circle until the music stops. Children fight and the weakest member of the group is left to feel bitter and resentful standing on the sides.
Experts believe that musical chairs originated as a French parlour game in the nineteenth century.
Early models included the Egyptians' animal leg designs , the Greeks' klismos and the Romans' savonarola chair , which was popular right into the Renaissance. 7. The net is, of course, ideal for those who would like to live in an armchair world . Classic designs for surfing range from Le Corbusier's functional swivel chair to Ray and Charles Eames' sophisticated footstool and lounger . Analogists love chairs . The modern era is like a game of musical chairs, they say, where the chairs represent the capacity for supporting humans within sustainable bounds and the music is the destructive rhythm of modern life.