"A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine." — Brian Sutton-Smith

One thinks of toys and play as an area of great novelty and potentiality where all sorts of responses can be developed. The fact that adults are allowing their imaginations to have activity through toy kinds of objects is a further reflection of the belief in the imagination of the adult mind.

Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.

Forget about teaching the children about numbers and colors and the like, and just play with them.

Children who play regularly with their peers are most likely to achieve the highest levels of adjustment as adults.

The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively.

I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives.

A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself.

If you are going to take away war toys, then what are you to replace them with? Children need to feel courageous, brave, and assertive. They need to feel strong; that is the purpose of their play.

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A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine.