# Child's Play

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Podcast: [With Good Reason](https://stenobird.com/podcast/with-good-reason-1041442)
Published: 2026-04-10T17:31:02+00:00
Episode link: https://soundcloud.com/withgoodreason/childs-play
Audio file: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2300279711-withgoodreason-childs-play.mp3
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Duration seconds: 3119

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LEGO used to be just for kids. But with the help of the COVID-19 pandemic and plain old burnout, many adults have returned to LEGO. They’ve even got a cool acronym – AFOL. It stands for Adult Fans of Lego. Andi Smith says it’s a hands-on, screen-free way to shut your brain off and create. In Andi’s architecture classes, students use LEGO to build everything from model playgrounds to mausoleums. Not the kits – they freestyle! And: Have you ever played with an ouija board? Rhonda Brock and Chris McGee say that the whole game is really to prove that you aren’t scared. And the camera is really one of the players. Because anything spooky must be proven! Later in the show: Many adults are reluctant to talk to children about grief and death. But why? 2026 PEN/Voelcker Award Finalist Gbenga Adesina and two-time National Book Award finalist Amber McBride join each other in conversation about their respective books Death Does Not End at the Sea and The Leaving Room where young adult narrators carry the reader through experiences with death and loss.

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