Chijioke didn't want to have anything to do with the laziness of other children and decided to enter the jungle. This is a small dog bush behind the backyard wall of his family home. If his parents, especially his father, Idoh, see him, they will rebuke him, even with a long whip, I like to hide behind his wide back to threaten the life of the newly planted yam tubers. But when Chijioke made up his mind, no one could let him stop him.
What did he go in the jungle, what other children asked each other? If he finds that he has trampled on the mound that the yam will sprout in a few months, Idoh will cry. The children suspect that Chijioke will come up with something. He made a difference to the bushes. He can come up with an old brown wingless donkey or a fat cheesy or green gibbons. Since there is no one child in a hurry, they wait.
Chijioke may stay in the bush until night falls, the stuttering child said. Before another person can digest the terrible predictions made by the stutterer, another child named Otubo [because he has a large umbilical hernia] glimpsed Chijioke on the edge of the bush. His gaze fell on the creature between Chijioke's fingers. "Lizard, little lizard!" Otto Bo heard crying for everyone. Every child is paying close attention to the announcement of the capture. From the nearby houses, more children are coming, even those who are too young to crawl.
"No escape," one of the children told the lizard that it was twisted in the air. Chijioke clenched it. On the open space in the front yard of the family home, eleven children, including several crawlers, kneel down and form a circle.
Chijioke gently placed the small lizard on the sand. All the children stared at it with sympathy and excitement. It is a gray-skinned lizard with a flat abdomen and a triangular head that is half an inch above the ground. "Chijioke takes you away from your mom," one voice managed to say, but the other children did not hear or respond.
A few hours ago, the sun went down. Although the ground was hot, it was not so unbearable, which made the lizard's flat abdomen a bit warmer - just enough to cause irritation, but it wouldn't cause harm. No child wants to suffer this little animal. They think it is as fragile as two baby crawlers. They believe that if their bare knees can handle the mild heat of sandy soil, baby lizards can.
For a while, seeing all these children, the lizard was shocked and unable to move. Then it regains some confidence and begins to observe them, no doubt judging whether they are distracting.
"Look at what it will do," said a three-year-old boy. "It is ready to escape," another predicted. "Let's pretend we are not here," said the third child. Then the children remained silent. If the lizard doesn't run, it won't be fun. The children want it to work so they can understand and bring it back to the center of the circle.
They are preparing to complain, condemning the little lizard as a weak, weak creature, and suddenly it suddenly hit a crawler's leg. Some children flew away. Others tried to grab it by hand. Twists and turns, lizards under the legs of several children, behind Otubo. Chijioke took a quick turn and sprint to capture the lizard and then put it back to the center of the circle.
A song broke out, "Clap your hands for a small lizard, - from
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--- Put your hands together for a young lizard, from
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--- Skip the walking lizard, but it became an expert. from
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".
In this song, some children dance from dancing, jumping to one leg, alternating their legs, and lifting their bodies into the air, while another group of children look at the lizards to make sure they have not escaped, only to try to do so, so they You can grab it and sing, dance and play over and over again.
We don't know why we played this way, but we did it; I grew up as a child in the hometown of Akokwa, Nigeria. Now we know. Childhood games originated from evolution and are essential for adequate physical and mental development [Bjorklund & Pellegrini, 2000].
reference
Bjorklund, D. F., & Pellegrini, A. D. [2000]. Child Development and Evolutionary Psychology. Child Development, 71 [6], 1687-1708. DOI: 10.1111 / 1467-8624.00258.
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