♦︎53 Smiles, Not Results
“Am I playing with them properly today...?”
Whether it's building blocks or bricks,
even when finished,
it feels like I just did it for them.
My wife is laughing with all her might.
Did I just spend time together?
What does it mean to “play properly” with a child?
The next day,
I asked the teacher.
“Moments like 'I did it!'”
“Or 'Do it again!'”
“Or moments where they laugh out loud.”
“When you're doing something together,
and the child's face suddenly lights up,
isn't that enough play?”
“I think play is more about 'whether you laughed together' than 'what you did.'”
That night,
It wasn't the finished block structure,
but that face when it fell over and we laughed out loud.
I see.
Play isn't about results or completing something.
The value was in the time we spent laughing together.
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