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This morning on Today, we learned that horseplay teaches boys and girls life lessons, like thinking fast and shaking things off. A book called The Art Of Roughhousing, by an MD and a PhD, supplies parents with information and tips about how to participate in physical play with their kids, absurd but true. Watching the dads featured in the segment get on the floor and roll around with the children, I had two reactions: First, I wanted to yell at the fathers. Who's the kid and who's the parent? You're gonna break a vase! Or an arm. Stop rolling around on the carpet and change some lightbulbs or take out some trash. Then I remembered how, when I was a kid visiting in rural Georgia, my grandfather used to pick me up by one leg and one arm and hurl me into the creek. I'd swim back to shore as fast as I could, eager for him to do it again. More »
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The CEO of Lego claims the building block company has trouble conquering the chicks. "We'll never stop trying," Jorgen V. Knudstorp says. "I think there is something that genetically skews us towards boys, but we can do better." The company will launch an online Lego Universe next year, hoping to appeal to children who spend more time online and less time playing with basic toys these days. But, Knudstorp claims, "There is something about the idea of constructing and deconstructing or destroying which frankly is an important part of Lego play that is a very boys-type of activity." Having a girlhood that involved plenty of Lego, this writer begs to differ. And guess what? It wasn't pink. Anyone else? [Reuters] More »
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