1 WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO CHILDHOOD?
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Ruby Lou was older, smarter, and bolder than I, but not too much so,
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Robert Fulghum
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.
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the important lessons anyone learns in life are not learned in kindergarten or anywhere else in school.
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learned from life
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Ruby Lou teaching me was how to ride a bicycle.
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Within a couple of days I indeed could ride forever.
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Ruby Lou and I began going on bike rides
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Ruby Lou also helped me climb trees.
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Ruby Lou gave me my first lesson about death.
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I’m not the only person who looks back at childhood and regrets that today’s children have less freedom than we did.
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“WE WERE SO INDEPENDENT, we were given so much freedom.
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now it’s impossible to imagine giving that to a child
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It’s not just a great loss; it’s a tragic and cruel loss.
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designed, by nature, to play and explore on their own,
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They need freedom in order to develop;
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Free play is the means by which children learn to make friends, overcome their fears, solve their own problems,
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We have pushed children into an abnormal environment,
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I’m an evolutionary developmental psychologist.
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I am interested in the biological foundations of education.
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families that practice a version of homeschooling called “unschooling,”
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Children are biologically predisposed to take charge of their own education.
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pursue their own interests, in safe settings, they bloom and develop
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children ask for any help they may need
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There is no need for forced lessons,
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children’s natural instincts to educate themselves,
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the power of play.
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we have seen a continuous erosion of children’s freedom
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A Half Century of Decline
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see children playing outside, without adult supervision.
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wearing uniforms and following the directions of adult coaches, while their parents look on and dutifully cheer their every move.
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“the golden age of children’s unstructured play.”
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unstructured” he really means structured by the players
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Pickup baseball is free play; a Little League game is not.
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decline in need for child labor,
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the gradual increase in adult control
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continuous decline in play since then.
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the ever-increasing weight of compulsory schooling.
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not only kindergarten, but prekindergarten
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structured more and more like elementary schools—
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in the 1950s we had half-hour recesses each morning
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Not only has the school day grown longer and less playful, but school has intruded ever more into home and family life. Assigned homework has increased,
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Parents are now expected to be teachers’ aides.
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assigned
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