While reading through the chapter, I began to think this chapter was the one I could relate most to thus far. In the section about play, Mildred Parten's types of play were discussed (pg 270). From my childhood, I can remember having the same few friends all through elementary school. I met my first best girl friend in first grade and my first best guy friend in second grade. The three of us played together all the time. Even though my one best friend was a boy, I cannot remember him ever playing in the form of "rough-and-tumble." In the text, it mentions that this type of play is most common amongst boys and/or with their fathers. In elementary school, my boy friend's parents were divorced and he lived with him mom as an only-child. I think this factor had a lot to do with how we played together. The type of play we were involved in was cooperative play and, specifically, the form of sociodramic play (pg 271). The best game with played at recess was our version of "house," except we did not play as people, we personified our pets and played various roles of guinea pigs and cats. We played like this everyday and each time we got deeper into our roles. Eventually, we did grow out of it, but writing about this time has made me chuckle at how wild our imaginations were... and still are.
Berger, K. S. (2011). The developing person through the life span (8th ed.). New York: Worth Publishers.
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