regular, fun, play

After watching the TED talk, Stuart Browns speech about play, I have fallen in love with it. I would of never thought about play in such a deep and inspirational way. Stuart Brown definitely has one creative mind! The different types of play he talked about really struck my mind: body, object, social, rough and tumble, spectator, ritual, imaginative are the ones that I caught. One that stuck out to me was rough and tumble, let me explain what popped in my head right away. My moms side of the family and my dads side of the family are total opposites, referring to the kids. My dads side of the family are just normal people, they remind me of me and my brother, except the fact that it is 40+ people, and growing. Each of them are loud, play sports, and know how to have a good time. My moms side of the family is different, they are not your average people haha. They are super rich and classy and are very strict with a lot of the things they do. The kids do not play sports, they learn sign language and play musical instruments. At my graduation party, the kids from my dads side of the family were running around playing tag, playing with the dog, jumping on the trampoline and so on. Now the kids from my moms side of the family were doing the complete opposite, if they even picked up a ball to play with or tried to fit in with the other kids playing, my Aunt would tell them to stop and sit down. This is something I have noticed since they were born (since the oldest is 7 years old), I guess I have not realized the severity of it until watching this video and learning the importance of play. I do feel bad for them, I feel like when they grow up they are going to look back and wish they did different things like most of the american population. It is something I can not change, all I can do is hope that my aunt realizes one day that play is important in a child's life.