“We are consistently seeing sensory, motor, and cognitive issues pop up more and more in later childhood, partly because of inadequate opportunities to move and play at an early age,” writes Angela Hanscom in The Washington Post.
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This is horrifying. Play is a necessary component of normal development, all cognitively advanced animals play – monkeys, cats, dogs, dolphins. It teaches you all skills needed in life: motor, sensory, social, cognitive. I’m so happy I’m not a kid now…
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Perhaps we will see the emergence of “Overplayfulness Disorder” as a clinical illness diagnosable in children for DSM 6. It would fit the Orwellian reality that pervades the pathetically distorted minds of most psychiatrists, a world in which any abnormal behavior can be defined as illness.
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