Since I have had a small person in my life, I have had more excuses for playing games like hide and seek, and chases
Actually, let me digress slightly to tell you about hide and seek with the three year old. Use to be I'd call "here I come", and he'd yell back "I'm here!". Sometimes he'd jump out and show me where he was hiding. Then we went through the hilarious phase where he would show us where to hide, then he would come and 'find' us. The best one was when he hid my six foot tall dad under the cover in his bed. C went off and counted in the kitchen, and came back to find Dad wasn't there anymore. Total Cfusion (Pa had moved to hide in C's closet). C went to look for him somewhere else, and Pa went and hid in the bed again. When C came back he was So Cfused!! But everyone thought it was extremely funny.
Children bring that lightness of being thing into life, its a gift from them to us boring gameless adults. However they have lots more stamina than us, and will want to play long after the game has lost its fun for the oldies.
R plays games, war games. With lots of little plastic tanks. Its a bit like chess but without the forces being symbolic. I can't stand it, there's no speed or excitement - a move can take half an hour. I'm useless at chess too.
Politcis strikes me as a game - they certainly act like children in the house.
Posted by Toni at November 14, 2003 08:00 AM