{"id":1651,"date":"2025-03-17T19:27:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/?page_id=1651"},"modified":"2025-03-17T19:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:27:01","slug":"transcript-battle-and-walden-rough-and-tumble-play","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/transcript-battle-and-walden-rough-and-tumble-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript Battle and Walden \u2013 rough and tumble play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Marc:<\/em>&nbsp; I\u2019ve been in the field for a while and when I first did rough and tumble play with school-agers, mostly young school-agers there was very clear rules that boys only wrestle boys and girls that they even wrestle, they would wrestle.&nbsp; Now we just did a little risk project with a school-age program here in Winnipeg and they were wrestling and they were pushing each other off of this picnic table on top of snow and I noticed that there were girls up there and the boys would get up there and they\u2019d fight them and they\u2019d wrestle them, right.&nbsp; So after that one little wrestle match we sat down with them and I went up to the young boy, because this is out of my culture, you know, being a 50-year-old man.&nbsp; I said, \u201cIs it appropriate to wrestle girls?\u201d&nbsp; And he goes, \u201cIf they\u2019re the same size all fair is fair.\u201d&nbsp; You know that\u2019s absolutely beautiful because when we think about pre-school kids, developmentally, that\u2019s when they\u2019re starting to develop that stereotype around genders.&nbsp; And if we were in a program without risk, how would we ever learn what the possibilities of a girl is, right? \u2013 within that play, because what happens when we deny them that risk and that opportunity to take that chance, they fall in to these rigid gender roles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Melinda:<\/em>&nbsp; Another thing I\u2019ve noticed too is when children are wrestling they size the other person up. I\u2019ve had a child who \u2013 we\u2019re like, \u201cWho do you want to wrestle?\u201d and one of the ECEs said, \u201cOh, I\u2019ll wrestle you.\u201d And he looked at her and she\u2019s like, \u201cNo \u2013 but I\u2019ll wrestle this guy.\u201d&nbsp; So they know who they want to wrestle and based upon their size usually or their ability sometimes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc:&nbsp; I\u2019ve been in the field for a while and when I first did rough and tumble play with school-agers, mostly young school-agers there was very clear rules that boys only wrestle boys and girls that they even wrestle, they would wrestle.&nbsp; Now we just did a little risk project with a school-age program here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-text-only.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1651","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1651\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}