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When you can't be present during play with your children

My daughter asks me to play dolls with her and I physically cannot sit on the floor for more than thirty seconds without checking my phone or thinking about work emails.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The inability to enter play reveals how thoroughly work consciousness has colonized even intimate moments.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with What is play — a philosophical definition?”

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