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In PHQP_0012 Children Want Power, Jeff explores how kids crave control and choice in their world. On this Playvolution HQ Podcast episode, Jeff gears up for a 50-mile walk challenge, wraps up the core values series with kids’ need for power, and unpacks the five principles of counting. He also urges trusting kids to organize dramatic play, recommends Free Range Kids, and wraps things up with a tasty Dad Joke of the Week! Episode Video Watch Now: PHQP_0012 Children Want Power Episode Notes Power Play Power Play Simplified Superhero Play: KAPOW, BLAMMMM, ZAP! Rough And Tumble Play Is Not Violent 10 Magnificent Reasons For Smashing And Mashing 7 Reasons Kids Choose Death Play Bones_0013 Power Struggles The 5 Principles Of Counting Trusting Kids To Organize Dramatic Play The Children Want Power Transcript Welcome to Playvolution HQ podcast. I'm Jeff Johnson. Thanks for pushing play on with the show. So, first up, 50 mile walk. So this is a thing I was reading not too long ago that back in the early 60s, this was actually a thing. People would go out and do 50 mile walks in a 24-hour period, what the goal was. And I guess President Kennedy did it. I don't know if it was before he became president or after. I think it was before he became president. Maybe he was president. I don't know. But then his brother went out and did it basically wearing loafers with his dog, went out and did a 50 mile walk in like 20 hours. And so I decided I'm going to give this a try because it sounded like a fun challenge. And it kind of bumps in the things we've talked about on the show. One is need. We need to all move more and that our brains like us to be in motion and to play because it's going to be grueling going out and walking 50 miles. Tasha, my wife, and I did an 18 mile walk a couple of months ago and that wasn't too bad. But this is going to be a real challenge. But for me, it's play because I got to figure out what gear I need. I'm going to, look, I've been looking at socks. I'm test driving some new socks, that kind of stuff. I think I'm going to get myself a camelback for water convenience because I figured out I'm going to need to drink about 300 ounces of water over the walking period. I decided I'm going to start like at 830 at night because that just seems logistically what's going to work out best for me. And that it's probably going to take between 16 and 20 hours for a 56 year old dude to do this. But I'm mentioning it here because this is part of the play too. Putting it out here in public means that I can't chicken out and do it. So I'm recording this in early March 2025. The plan is to do it sometime in mid April. So stay tuned and see if I follow through. Next up, topic number one, last of our core value series. And maybe we'll recap all 12 of them sometime. And maybe someday I'll come up with more. But here we go. Children want power. And I think a lot of the problems we have in early learning programs comes down to power struggles between adults and kids. And so if we can kind of see through the lens of power, sometimes we can avoid behavior, quote unquote, problems with kids. Sometimes we can do more to support children's efforts to lead their own learning. So power equals control over their world. And when you're two or three or four or 11 years old, you don't always feel that powerful in your life or your world very often. There's always somebody bigger telling you what to do and when to do it and how to do it. And so power struggles become a big part of childhood in a lot of ways. And by giving kids power, I'm not talking about giving them total control over everything because they're just physiologically and cognitively unready for that. But there are a lot of ways we can look at giving them more power in their life. Because what it really boils down to is power equals choice. This is one of the values of a real play.