ABSTRACT

Before you start to read this chapter and have to switch into the serious academic mode, try to remember at least one game that you played with your parents. Was it fun? Was it something you felt they did out of duty? Was it something they did to show off? My father didn’t play with me but devoted much time when I was about five to explain to me the details of his stamp collection. For years afterwards, I felt I ought to collect stamps even though they didn’t interest me much. He felt, I’m sure, we were having fun.