On May 2, 2011, at 3:22 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> They don't play all that much. Especially not free social play that I had from morning to night, just by stepping out on the street. No one steps out on the street. Public space became closed to children about 25 years ago.
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> They play only in private spaces, and the achievement race starts early and is unrelenting.
Again, that's just not true in Brooklyn. There are kids all over.
Doug