What Was the Child? – The New Inquiry
TO MY MIND, THOUGH, there is a third development that has altered our parenting experience above all others, and that is the wholesale transformation of the child’s role, both in the home and in society. Since the end of World War II, childhood has been completely redefined. Today, we work hard to shield children from life’s hardships. But... See more
Jennifer Senior • All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
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 moreJonathan Haidt • The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
how we treat children is how we treat ourselves. and on a planet where children are one of the most controlled populations on earth, we treat ourselves like shit. it was toussaintF12 who said that our education systems are a way of preparing youth for prisons. and truly, childhood is where we first learn what it means to become a ‘good human’.
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