ABSTRACT
Acclaimed nationally and internationally, it ensures that their names will always be associated with the study of children’s folklore. A child might describe another way of continuous skipping, for instance, in which a player might tap the outgoing skipper on the back as she jumps into the rope. Organisation is the last thing that should happen in playtime, for playtime is free time. If children do not want to play anything in particular, but simply walk round aggravating each other, that is up to them. The stereotype of children playing is that there should be a little group here skipping, and another group joining hands in a singing game there, and a line of boys over there playing Leapfrog, all nicely spaced, all recognisable games. Young women playing jacks in ancient Greece must have been copied by little girls. Young people dancing and singing their courtship games in medieval times were watched and later copied by children.
