Nine Reasons Why Children (and grown-ups) Should Spend More Time Playing. We’ve all been there. The school or workday has officially ended but there are still tasks that need to be finished before morning. It seems like the best course of action is to buckle down and get the work done as soon as you—or whoever has work to do—get home. Though the idea that if you get your work done now, you’ll have the whole evening in front of you sounds enticing in theory, in practice it’s hard to convince yourself or someone else that hitting the books or the screen