the things you're describing are more socially or behaviorally aligned with a particular life stage. What's a better term? Emotional age?
Agree this makes more sense.
Adult lives can become so prescribed and restrained, and they forget how to have fun -something that young children in particular understand on a primal level.
Growing up is a mistake, and one I hope I never commit.
Great point. I am acutely aware of the need for more play in my life and am actively seeking it out in ways that are taking me way outside of my comfort zone, but this is a recent thing for me.
I think American mothers have an especially hard time carving out time for their own play. I recently read the wonderfully insightful book Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time by Bridig Shulte, and it did a great job of describing the guilt that American women feel when they selfishly attend to their own social/emotional needs. I would venture that both the need and the guilt might be heightened in gifted women.
