My neighborhood has children, but I rarely see or hear them. Maybe you remember, as I do, long summer days "playing outside" with friends or by yourself, making up games and discovering things and riding bikes. My neighborhood is quiet even in the summer.
But there are lots of kids at a nearby park where grownups organize sports, and the kids wear uniforms. Other than that, they're at home watching some screen on some device. Are they missing something? Lots of voices today say that they are. One of them wrote this book:
Last month Haidt's book came out and is getting a lot of attention. Partially that's because he's an expert😉-- and partially it's because many of us adults already feel that something's wrong when kids don't go outside to play.
The theme is that we've "drastically overprotected children in the real world and woefully under-protected them in the virtual world." This social psychologist has lots of company in his worry about Generation Z (born 1996-2013).
from Mind Matters
(cont'd tomorrow)
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