Play School Metaphor

My father's colleague visited our place this evening with his three year old son. The little boy is [in]famous for his naughtiness. I would call it curiosity but his parents beg to differ. They put him in a play school. It gets over at 12 noon. For sometime the boy was made to stay with his maternal grandparents till his mother picked him up from work. But after 3 months and a lot of mishaps and broken gadgets later, the grandparents were at their wits' end and parents decided to intervene. The boy was put in a second play school from 12.30 pm to 5 pm. So the boy shuttled from one school in the morning to another in the evening. After one week of this, he refused to go to the second play school.

This evening, over a game of throw-ball, [he stood atop a chair] I asked him why he refused to go to the second school. He looked me squarely and replied matter of factly in his broken Tamil - "They put me in a bed and ask me to sleep all the time. And I want to play. They don’t allow me to play. I am not going there."

I nodded my head understandingly at him. "We are on the same boat, my boy."