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In 'Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man', he wrote 'The human being is only fully human when he plays - and he is playing only when he is fully human.' Through play, we all, child or adult, can find the resilience that lies at the core of our ,'I'.

Thus, the more stories and their repetitions, the more neural fields and connections are brought into play. The stronger and more permanent the capacity for visual-verbal interaction grows, the more powerful conceptualization, imagination and attentiveness become.

The most recent neurobiological research, as summarized by J. Chilton Pearce in Evolution's End, bears this out. 'Children want to hear the same story over and over again, not to "learn" it - most children remember a story after one hearing - but because repetition causes the interweaving neural fields involved in the image-flow to myelinated...

We show our welcome, therefore, by taking a child's play seriously, either at home or in as early year's setting and, by doing so, we show the child that we take him seriously, too.

We show our welcome, therefore, by taking a child's play seriously, either at home or in as early year's setting and, by doing so, we show the child that we take him seriously, too.

Play brings together head, hand and heart. It is fundamental to each and every one of us and, although it may change as we mature, it never completely disappears from our lives.

Play brings together head, hand and heart. It is fundamental to each and every one of us and, although it may change as we mature, it never completely disappears from our lives.