The 7-year-old darts through the dining room carrying his plastic shield and wooden sword, and yelling “Up, men! Up and at ’em!” Close on his heels is his 5-year-old sister, barefoot, wearing a tiara on her head, floating in her princess dress, and carrying a spatula for her scepter. Grandpa sees a little boy still dressed in his pajamas who’s acting out one of the stories they’d read the previous evening about King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. He sees a little girl who has watched several Disney movies, old and new, and is play-acting as one of the heroines. But how do they see themselves? Here, we must engage in guesswork and supposition. Odds are likely, however, that in his imagination, the boy is decked out in glittering armor and is cutting down a band of wicked enemies with that mighty Arthurian sword, Excalibur. And surely …
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