Free play has gained a lot of attention lately.  I’ve read about it in several places (here, here, here, here, and here).  Documentary films have been made about it, the CDC has called attention to its health benefits, and psychologists …

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When I was about five years old, the refrigerator in our kitchen stopped working.  That avocado colored homage to 1970s kitsch had to be replaced.  My parents loaded us up in the station wagon, and off we went to Sears …

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