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Children's Games in Street and Playground - Volume 2: Hunting, Racing, Duelling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, Pretending (Paperback)
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Children's Games in Street and Playground - Volume 2: Hunting, Racing, Duelling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, Pretending (Paperback)
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Perhaps this book should come with a warning to parents: within
these pages, children deliberately scare each other, ritually hurt
each other, take foolish risks, promote fights, and play ten
against one. And yet throughout, they consistently observe their
own sense of fair play. 'During the past fifty years, shelf-loads
of books have been written instructing children in the games they
ought to play -- and some even instructing adults on how to
instruct children in the games they ought to play -- but few
attempts have been made to record the games children in fact play.'
This was Iona and Peter Opie's pertinent observation in 1969, and
it was this gap that they sought to fill with their exhaustive
survey, through the 1960s, of the games that children 'in fact
play' aged roughly between six and twelve years of age, and when
outdoors -- and usually out of sight. The Opies weren't interested
in formal games and sports supervised by parents or teachers. What
excited them were the rough-and-tumble games for which, as one
child described, 'nothing is needed but the players themselves.'
They were also anxious that, in their meticulous recording of the
games, the spirit of the play, the zest, variety and
disorderliness, should not be lost. The result was their classic
work Children's Games in Street and Playground. To aid a clear and
lively presentation of their remarkable study, the original single
book has been divided into two. Both volumes record games played in
the street, park, playground and wasteland of more than 10,000
children from the Shetland Isles to the Channel Islands, although
the majority of the information comes from children living in big
cities such as London, Liverpool, Bristol and Glasgow. This second
volume focuses on games involving seeking, hunting, racing,
duelling, exerting, daring, guessing, acting and pretending. More
than 85 games are described in detail including the rhymes and
saying children repeat while playing them, together with the
different names under which they are played. Brief historical notes
are also included where relevant. The children of the 1960s, the
Opies noted, are often thought 'to be incapable of
self-organization, and to have become addicted to spectator
amusements.' to the extent that adults must be relied on to provide
play materials, ideas and time to play with them. The same
attitudes are still widespread today with our concerns about
television and computer games, and the middle-class parental
impulse to fill our children's days with organised classes and play
dates. 'However much children may need looking after, they are also
people going about their own business within their own society.'
There are important lessons to be learned from this book about
giving children the time and physical space to be themselves with
other children.
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