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Play reduces stress and lifts wellbeing – and adults benefit as much as children do
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Somewhere along the way to adulthood, time to play fades away. We tend to trade silliness and imagination for seriousness and busyness.
Yet there is clear evidence that adults benefit from playfulness just...