You Can Actively Flee, Then, And You

You See A Child Play, And It Is So Close To Seeing An Artist Paint, For In Play A Child Says Things Without Uttering A Word. You Can See How He Solves His Problems. You Can Also See What's Wrong. Young Children, Especially, Have Enormous Creativity, And Whatever's In Them Rises To The Surface In Free Play.

Play Is The Most Natural Method Of Self-healing That Childhood Affords.

Will, Therefore, Is The Unbroken Determination To Exercise Free Choice As Well As Self-restraint, In Spite Of The Unavoidable Experience Of Shame And Doubt In Infancy.

The Strengths A Young Person Finds In Adults At This Time-their Willingness To Let Him Experiment, Their Eagerness To Confirm Him At His Best, Their Consistency In Correcting His Excesses, And The Guidance They Give Him-will Codetermine Whether Or Not He Eventually Makes Order Out Of Necessary Inner Confusion And Applies Himself To The Correction Of Disordered Conditions. He Needs Freedom To Choose, But Not So Much Freedom That He Cannot, In Fact, Make A Choice.

The Playing Adult Steps Sideward Into Another Reality; The Playing Child Advances Forward To New Stages Of Mastery.