In this episode I explore the impact and influence our playful behaviour has had on our development as human beings. I belive it quite profoundly have changed not just our psychology and behaviour but also our bodies.
I share a deeply personal story of the first couple of hours in my daughter's life and how it birthed a new and deeper kind of love.
The father's role in raising babies and children.
The tribe's role in raising babies and children.
The love, which first appeared in Mother grew to include the father and the tribe and in this we all played a role in affording a child a relaxed field, where that child can flourish outside of the restriction of natural selection. Where the child gets to express only themselves and act only in accordance with themselves. (in an idealised situation of course as there always will be tribal, societal, and individual influences)
Child is a social glue. It brings us together in the childbirth, in the rearing of the child, it connects us. It continues in how families are brought together through our shared interest and care for and responsibility for the child.
We sit around the fire like we sit around a child.
they trigger conversations and stories that emerge because we sit around a child. They shape us and the stories we tell. THere are other stories told around the fire in the dark, and there are particular stories that are told because there are children are present.
RELAXED FIELD - the space where play happens and where we are the most fully human.
relaxed pressure from the four f's
foraging, fighting, fleeing and fornicating.
which is what we have to do. (if we dont o these succesfully we perish)
the things we choose to do. (what we choose to do with the time given to us)
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