I think you will find this 3-minute, well-made video interesting and informative. It may be something you will want to share with others. It was created by Vanessa Mendoza of Kite & Key Media, who is a friend of my Let Grow colleague, Lenore Skenazy. The text in the film are quotes from my recent article in the Journal of Pediatrics and from another article published by the University of Michigan Mott Children’s Center.
Good points! I grew up in the days of lots of freedom but reports of whack jobs, child exploitation were so rare. I think today’s parents are trying and rightly so to keep their kids safe in an increasingly dark world
There’s a typo on one of the slides: “Parents seems to…” Also, I find the music distractingly repetitious. Other than that, it’s a good intro to the ideas presented within.
Thanks Peter for once again advocating for giving children space to freely express their natural human nature. 32 seconds into the video, there is a mixed-age group of kids joyfully playing together. That’s unusual because kids mostly socialize in groups of same-age peers. Why? Because—starting at age 5—‘age-grade’ schools segregate kids into same-age cohorts, which pretty much isolates them from relating with other-aged people throughout their upbringings: leaving them super-dependent on 'fitting in' with their same-age peers. Kinda weird, huh?
Good points! I grew up in the days of lots of freedom but reports of whack jobs, child exploitation were so rare. I think today’s parents are trying and rightly so to keep their kids safe in an increasingly dark world
There’s a typo on one of the slides: “Parents seems to…” Also, I find the music distractingly repetitious. Other than that, it’s a good intro to the ideas presented within.
Thanks Peter for once again advocating for giving children space to freely express their natural human nature. 32 seconds into the video, there is a mixed-age group of kids joyfully playing together. That’s unusual because kids mostly socialize in groups of same-age peers. Why? Because—starting at age 5—‘age-grade’ schools segregate kids into same-age cohorts, which pretty much isolates them from relating with other-aged people throughout their upbringings: leaving them super-dependent on 'fitting in' with their same-age peers. Kinda weird, huh?
Thank you for sharing! It’s a good little summary - hopefully it’s shared widely.