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Suffer The Little Children
“Mary, Mary, quite contrary.
How does your garden grow?
I live in a flat, you stupid prat,
So how the f— should I know?”[Ten-year-olds, Bradford]
David Rowan for Time Magazine: Have children really forgotten how to play? A fascinating well written piece on the fading art of being a child.
He writes “But have today’s PlayStation-owning and text-messaging nine- and ten-year-olds really lost the art of creative, imaginative play? The Times Magazine decided to investigate by visiting primary schools across Britain to watch and listen. I went in search not of the songs or activities taught by teachers and parents, but of the uncensored rhymes and self-generated games that children pass among themselves. The brief was simple: to discover whether the 21st-century playground retains any of the variety and vitality documented so thoroughly in Peter and Iona Opie’s classic 1959 survey, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren.”