The child might perhaps be encouraged to become an athlete, and the father could decide that throwing a football is the way to go about it. Exercising such ritualized and available activities is another example of the child accommodating to a preexisting form set up by others. They do not depend on the child’s imaginative life, although children may still endeavour to imagine themselves being football heroes, or the like. Such children, although they may engage in sundry outdoor activities, all of which are quite physically and educationally stirring, participate in a life that becomes an
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