Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that children learn that life is a magic thing, if "not a rose garden." The parent's role is primarily to stand by with a good supply of band-aids.
Leo BuscagliaThe human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.
Leo Buscaglia