Bread Alone

Not by bread alone project: a 2-year follow-up report.

BACKGROUND We have previously reported the developmental gains achieved, after introducing a simple programme of structured play to stimulate children in an orphanage. It was envisaged that the caregivers could continue the programme. However, the enthusiasm of the caregivers waned over the year the programme was entrusted to them. After 1 year, a full time play therapist was recruited to rejuv...

Standard Bread

Sir,?I was glad to see the letter on this subject from " B. A. C." in your last issue, together with your editorial approval of it. Can nothing be done to indfi.ee bakers to give us really palatable and nutritious bread ? No doubt they will say, as you do, that their customers love to have ill-baked, tasteless bread. But once upon a time j)eople were content with smelly omnibuses carpeted with ...

Not by bread alone': impact of a structured 90-minute play session on development of children in an orphanage.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In developing countries, caring for the large number of babies in orphanages is very hard work. Whereas the physical needs of most of the children are met, play often gets neglected. Studies have repeatedly shown that babies in such institutionalized settings suffer from severe psychomotor retardation. The aim of this project was to develop an intervention programme of...

Bread and Circuses

In the past, too little thought has been given to the relationship of culture to play. That the forms of play have varied with different cultural epochs is often forgotten; even more rarely mentioned is the idea that culture arises in the form of play, and play needs to be born. This is the main thesis of Professor Huizinga's important and absorbing book, Homo Ludens.1 He argues that culture is...

Bread and Dirt