Play As A Vector In Learning..Even At The Worst Of Times

Play As A Vector In Learning..Even At The Worst Of Times

My kids and I play games. We are unabashedly self labeled gamers. The benifits of free play as well as more structured play is well proved in our house. This bit then opens the conversation to how others have used games in some of the most brutal of situations.
" One game of their own devising was modeled after the camp's daily roll call and was called klepsi-klepsi, a common term for stealing. One playmate was blindfolded; then one of the others would step forward and hit him hard on the face; and then, with blindfold removed, the one who had been hit had to guess, from facial expressions or other evidence, who had hit him. To survive at Auschwitz, one had to be an expert at bluffing — for example, about stealing bread or about knowing of someone's escape or resistance plans. Klepsi-klepsi may have been practice for that skill."