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Remember your childhood days – if you were lucky, you will recall the haven of your bedroom or living room, a favourite chair or corner, well-loved toys and books. You might remember hours spent in a smallish back garden, which seemed to you quite big, and had interesting, even scary, corners and hidey-holes, insects and birds, some stuff to climb on. And over it all, with any luck, a feeling of peace, safety, time, your own space to be absorbed in fantasy play and imagining, which in turn was stimulated by books read to you, stories and TV programmes you were allowed to watch. You had friends who visited with their parents, or came in from next door, and you played with them, mostly in groups of two or three. You developed fantasy games, which lasted for hours, and from which you had to be dragged away for supper or bedtime. Perhaps you had these things, but even if not, you probably wished you had, and you want your children to have them too. Childhood needs its time, and its space.