Comment by behnamoh
1 month ago
This is one of the few things children still do even centuries later. In many aspects, we have changed so drastically that I think 100-year-ago people would find us weird and unsociable.
1 month ago
This is one of the few things children still do even centuries later. In many aspects, we have changed so drastically that I think 100-year-ago people would find us weird and unsociable.
Not at all. Young children, in particular, do the same things they’ve been doing since modern humans evolved, if not even earlier than that. My three and six year old boys wake up in the morning and pretend to be puppies. I’m sure kids their age were doing that 30,000 years ago when humans domesticated dogs.
They were playing tic tac toe the other day, and asked my dad whether he played tic tac toe when he was a kid. My dad—who grew up in a village in Bangladesh—explained that he did, except they drew the game in the dirt with sticks.