Playing for Keeps

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Play with Violent Themes:
Raising Children in the 21st Century

Base: All Respondents: Dads (82) Moms (83) Grandparents (108)

Guns, shooting including BB guns, toy guns, paint-ball 36% 39% 30%

Knives, bows & arrows - other piercing things 4% 9% 8%

Small parts might be dangerous - things that look like food 3% 4% 3%

Self-Rating of Parenting Skills
While Parents put a great deal of blame for the difficulty in raising children on external factors, they do not excuse themselves.

Only about one in four give themselves the highest rating for their parenting skills compared with 40% of all grandparents. Clearly, most Parents think they could do a better job

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It is becoming increasingly clear through research on the brain as well as in other areas of study, that childhood needs play. Play acts as a forward feed mechanism into courageous, creative, rigorous thinking in adulthood.

--Tina Bruce, Professor, London Metropolitan University