THE OBSERVATION BOOTH
OP / ED & PHOTO CREDITS BY ANDREA DIALECT
Whether it was Hop Scotch, Hide and Seek, Monkey In The Middle, Freeze Tag, Musical Chairs, Red Light Green Light, Chinese Jump Rope, Jacks, Double Dutch (with or without the McDonalds menu song), Spinning Tops, Wall Ball, Simon Says, Hand Games like Miss Mary Mack, Zing, Zing, Zing, Pat-A-Cake, Rockin Robin also Hopping over Toy Footsies. Playing Hula Hoops, Dodge Ball, Duck, Duck Goose or with a Bat and Ball it was competitions.
As “Child’s Play” not only were a lot of these games played a great way to wear off energy and to keep us kids occupied, but more importantly they were also quite pivotal in our developing the critical thinking and skill sets needed which enabled us to navigate through life as we stumbled into becoming adults.
I loved and benefited from them all and I want us all too. So feel free to take this list and jumpstart or do em’ again and make disciples while you’re at it. We will all be all the better for it, trust me. Come with me and take this skip back into memory lane in this mirror, mirror moment. Enjoy!
CHILD’S PLAY
When one of my girls stood on the opposite end of that street as our pretend mother, by a long slide, I’d mosey in their company, leaving my opponents behind. If one of my sisters held that spot, forget about it! But if the person up there had a show of attitude, connected to the hand on hip and in their eyes the look of revenge, that position then belonged to one my foes, and I knew my little scraggly behind wasn’t gonna get far . . .
MOTHER MAY I
“You may take three medium steps.”
“Mother may I?” I’d ask.
“No, you may not,” they’d say.
That was the scheme of things when a rival was in charge. Giant
steps, leaps, and hops were unheard of, and, if allowed an occasional
baby step or two, I’d be asked to take two steps back the next time
around. Naturally, I preferred the person on the opposite side to be
the one in my corner when we played the game. When analyzing,
comprehending, the rules of something as simplistic as child’s play,
it seems logical that one would also befriend Source and Nature. In our game, we
were privileged by association, but in the game of life, it’s said that
there are no favorites.
If some of the other players have bought into the myth that fair is all
there is, I say beg to differ: that way, if your good family name doesn’t
strike up the least bit of familiarity, you won’t be banking on playing on
her sympathy while sitting on that stoop, ‘cause like some, you done
promised your cousin or somebody else that you’ll stay, and she don’t
know them, so you can’t play!
When you start to notice the ones out there in that street, dodging
those balls, cars and/ or obstacles, which are granted permission to advance, you too had better get in cahoots with mother! Because if you look up and you see she’s giving attitude, you may have provoked her fury. If lucky, you might be
granted a few baby steps because of her generosity or her pity, but when
taking that glance back, you’ll realize that you ain’t move.
Yet, if certain always to remember your good manners by asking
permission, and she looks down and smiles on you, with leaps, hops,
and giant steps you’ll get to advance. You best believe that it won’t be too
long before you’ll be right there in her company.
DO YA KNOW THAT?
CHILD’S PLAY – activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules.
Self-Help
Self-help or self-improvement is a self-directed improvement of oneself – economically, physically, intellectually, or emotionally – often with a substantial psychological basis.
Self-Discovery
A “journey of self-discovery” refers to a travel, pilgrimage, or series of events whereby a person attempts to determine how they feel, personally, about spiritual issues or priorities, rather than following the opinions of family, friends, neighborhood or peer pressure.
Self-Reflection
Simply put, self-reflection (also known as “personal reflection”) is taking the time to think about, meditate on, evaluate, and give serious thought to your behaviors, thoughts, attitudes, motivations, and desires. Wikipedia
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