There are so many areas of grey I can't see for the clouds.
You have got to be kidding. Constraints vary in degree in each situation, again, you are not defining and that what my question was all about.
How many minutes of being creative and imaginative do you need for free time? Just like no one dares put down how much time a mother should spend with their child to make quantity not quality the issue -- too political.
Val, I dare you to write an exact amount of free time a child needs so they can be creative and imaginative. And then tell me what the correlational positive results form that amount of time. Just like 9 months of breastfeeding gives you all the benefits. They have found after 9 months, the additional positive benefits drop off like a rock off a cliff. Not that it isn't good to breastfeed longer but the differential benefits impact is neglible.
Give something tangible about free time and creative and imaginative since you criticized my quip about the 5 minutes of Barbie time before school.
Ren
