{"id":2455,"date":"2014-06-29T15:36:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T15:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2014-06-29T15:41:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T15:41:17","slug":"danger-games-a-mothers-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/blog\/2014\/06\/29\/danger-games-a-mothers-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Danger Games: A Mother’s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My Mother, Patricia Cecil Elliott, Teacher of Danger Games, cradles my son.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just wanted to share with you a story as we begin the week of fun and games and more games and more fun.\u00a0 This is a story that has a happy beginning, an unhappy middle and a happy ending.<\/p>\n

My mother was the greatest natural athlete I have ever known.\u00a0 She helped pioneer women’s full court basketball in the 1930’s in Kentucky.\u00a0 She was a coach herself and to her dying days was the best commentator on basketball I have ever heard.\u00a0 But her athleticism extended well beyond the court.<\/p>\n

She was a whiz at marbles (keepsies was the only way to play according to her). Even at age 55 with crippling emphysema she could beat anyone I knew at a game of burnout with a hardball.\u00a0 She could make her own kites that we would fly over the Ohio River until they would collapse in a cascade of string and her cigarette hoarse laughter.\u00a0 And she taught us knife games, notable mumbledy peg and its many variants including the one called ‘suicide’.<\/p>\n

Her constant cry to us kids was simple: get outside and play.\u00a0 Even reading in the summer became an exhortation to take clothespins and old sheets and make a reading tent.\u00a0 She left us to read in those tents as long as we were outside.\u00a0 I read a lot of books outside as a kid. I loved her for this simple gift of play. The unhappy middle of the story is that my mother died so young from congestive heart failure caused by smoking.<\/p>\n

Her gaming spirit keeps on in me and mine.\u00a0 That is the happy ending. And here is another one: \u00a0 get out, get out and play. Games are everywhere.\u00a0 And the infinite game of learning is the greatest one of all.\u00a0 Perhaps if you take a walk and play marbles along the way with friends, maybe some day I will tell you the story of a game of Zorro gone awry. Until then listen to my Mom:\u00a0 make games, make games and play.<\/p>\n

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Just wanted to share with you a story as we begin the week of fun and games and more games and more fun.\u00a0 This is a story that has a happy beginning, an unhappy middle and a happy ending. My mother was the greatest natural athlete I have ever known.\u00a0 She helped pioneer women’s full
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