Peter Gray

So she let them play in the ways that they wanted to play.

And one of the games that they played, this was after COVID, was called something like Infection, or maybe it was called COVID, something like that.

And

Some of the children were infection.

And if they touch somebody, you became infected and might die.

And others were called vaccine.

And they could prevent you from dying by coming and touching you.

It was quite an imaginative game.

I have no idea how they developed, but the teacher said they were clearly having a lot of fun with that.

But then a

One of the school administrators observed that and she said, no, we can't have games like that going on.

We can't have people pretending to die.

I've heard of many stories where recesses have been very much curtailed and limited because of rules about what you can and cannot do in play.

Yeah, so this was designed to promote bonding between fathers and their sons.

And the boys were about eight years old at this time.

And the way it works is each father-son pair is given a kit that includes a piece of very soft pine wood, about seven inches long, and wheels that can be attached to it.

And the idea is to carve the wood into something that

looks like a race car and to attach the wheels.

And then you, everybody brings them back to the next meeting of the group and, and you race them down a slope.

My interpretation of this was, this was an opportunity for children to do something a little bit risky using a knife to carve the soft wood and for fathers to help out.