Free Play
[Courtesy of Vortexeffect.com] Currently taking a liberal studies class about children and their environment. One topic we discussed were these special places. Of course, I thought that this meant MadTV Stewart's special place. Alas, that was not the case. Our study was pulled mainly from David Soebl's research of forts. To surmise, Soebl's conducted a study of children's so-called special places in two regions: the more advanced, and somewhat rural, Devon, England and the underdeveloped, remote Carriacou. What he found was that, despite the differences geographically, adolescents behaved similarly in regards that they all seemed to find these places within their comfort zone where they can, unsupervised, be children. And within that area, they essentially learn how to become adults. Children in England found shrubs, a cubby hole...