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All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
- Playful Parenting is a way to enter a child’s world, on the child’s terms, in order to foster closeness, confidence, and connection.
from Playful Parenting - by Lawrence Cohen | Derek Sivers by Lawrence Cohen
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- "Parent or childfree" used to be my framework for understanding a dividing difference of adult life. But aging and, yes, friendship, have taught me that there are so many experiences that binary doesn't capture: To want kids but not be able to have them, for physical or financial or logistical reasons. To not want kids but accidentally get pregnant... See more
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from Ann Friedman - Parenthood likewise forces an encounter with the illogic of the market: good fortune means getting to pay someone less than you make to do a job that’s harder and probably more important than your own.
from Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion? by Jia Tolentino
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- But modern childhood, in America and elsewhere, is more and more constrained.
from Cities Aren’t Built for Kids by The Atlantic
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- Jonathan Haidt is right when he talks about the sudden switch from play-based to phone-based childhoods and how it destroyed mental health—particularly for young girls. Our childhoods weren’t spent toying with risk and danger, teaching ourselves we could cope with it, learning that it’s baked into life. We had bans on play fighting. Health and safe... See more
from Risk-Aversion Is Killing Romance - By Freya India - GIRLS by freyaindia.co.uk
Agalia Tan added
The intrusion of smartphones and social media are not the only changes that have deformed childhood. There’s an important backstory, beginning as long ago as the 1980s, when we started systematically depriving children and adolescents of freedom, unsupervised play, responsibility, and opportunities for risk taking, all of which promote competence,
... See morefrom The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood by Jonathan Haidt
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“Those who look to parenthood as a solution to their discontent will typically find that the rewards, though real, are some years in the future.”
from The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50 by Jonathan Rauch
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