The fine art of "doing nothing" (which was always, really, doing something, even if it was daydreaming) and "just playing" is a mystery to more and more of our kids.
"In decades past," writes David Bornstein in a New York Times Online commentary, "when neighborhoods were perceived to be safe, children had lots of time to play outdoors, and they naturally picked up the culture of play from older kids. Today, children are indoors more and 'personal use media' takes up six or seven hours of their time every day." I would add to that, that any "play" time children have these days, at least in the cities and suburbs, has become highly structured: dance class, soccer team, art class, swim team. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/hard-times-for-recess/?ref=opinion
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