I was thirty-two in 1986, but the life of a kid you describe seems just like the life I had as a boy two decades earlier, and, for that matter, like what my parents told me about how it was when they were kids in the 1930s. The difference between then and now is the freedom children once had, which seems to have ended by this century, to…
I was thirty-two in 1986, but the life of a kid you describe seems just like the life I had as a boy two decades earlier, and, for that matter, like what my parents told me about how it was when they were kids in the 1930s. The difference between then and now is the freedom children once had, which seems to have ended by this century, to be replaced by screen time, organized activities, and continuous adult surveillance. The helicoptering of kids isn't doing them any favors.
I was thirty-two in 1986, but the life of a kid you describe seems just like the life I had as a boy two decades earlier, and, for that matter, like what my parents told me about how it was when they were kids in the 1930s. The difference between then and now is the freedom children once had, which seems to have ended by this century, to be replaced by screen time, organized activities, and continuous adult surveillance. The helicoptering of kids isn't doing them any favors.