Never before in history have parents obsessed like this over how a child plays. Play is unstructured for a reason: so that children can go off on tangents, exp

Never before in history have parents obsessed like this over how a child plays. Play is unstructured for a reason: so that children can go off on tangents, exploring their world and discovering new and interesting things, exercising their creativity in many ways that won't work, but gaining a deeper understanding of how things really do work in the process of their experimentation. The more you interfere, the more you stunt that kind of growth. As you artificially cut off more and more avenues, you implicitly teach your child not to even try, but rather meekly accept the uninspired realities presented by their betters.