I wish I had more private time to relax with my family, travel for leisure, play golf and read books!
§ Development: Every child has a right to education, culture, leisure, play, sports, access to information, and freedom of thought.
Sport, leisure and play would enable them to become confident team players who trust in their abilities, and they would be less likely to engage in violence and criminal activity, more likely to enrol in school and, once there, more inclined to attend and achieve scholastic success.
It houses a large swimming pool, leisure and play pools, indoor bowls, six badminton courts, a gymnasium, a fun room for toddlers, a cafeteria and a licensed bar.
"In the wonderful summer months, we have the spirit and leisure to play a bit," said Elyse Eidman-Aadahl of the National Writing Project.
He had a pretty wife and two young daughters, and enough leisure to play Ping-Pong, fish in the rivers outside town, and drink beer in the city's pubs and breweries.
And anyway, if we are to go to the philosophers, we should also consider Plato who freely uses draughts as a metaphor for discourse in the Republic and considered leisure and play to be vital elements of a healthy life.
A society without entertainment "would be a pretty frightening thing," said Frank A. Salamone, a professor of sociology at Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y., and the author of "Society, Culture, Leisure and Play: An Anthropological Reference" (University Press of America, 2000).
This finding is consistent with WHO findings that alcohol-related traumatic injuries are more likely to occur in public places and during periods of leisure and play [26].
Children themselves complain about their unequal access to public space, as well as to leisure and play infrastructures in urban environments (Hood 2007).
They are Americans, and they know that there is something profoundly wrong with a situation in which some work and pay through the nose while others, who do not work, profit and are at leisure to play.
