Life was richer back then.
06/14/07 09:12 AM
"Children are so cocooned by their parents that
they rarely venture far from home and have little
concept of space, volume and how the world actually
works, David Willetts, the shadow education
secretary, said yesterday.
The area in which children were allowed to range freely by their parents was a ninth of what it was a generation ago, he said."
Adjoining my home is an undeveloped tract of about 700 forested acres where I do a lot of running. Many children live in the adjoining subdivisions but I almost never (maybe a few times a year) see any boys out there riding bikes or exploring or playing the way we would have done almost daily when I was young. Some of it is overprotective parents, much of it is simply a lack of imagination brought on by an excess of indoor entertainments.
I never cease to be deeply saddened by this loss: children today are so impoverished, and unnecessarily so. They have more stuff, but fewer and narrower experiences (despite greater travel and multiple organized activities).
More here.
The area in which children were allowed to range freely by their parents was a ninth of what it was a generation ago, he said."
Adjoining my home is an undeveloped tract of about 700 forested acres where I do a lot of running. Many children live in the adjoining subdivisions but I almost never (maybe a few times a year) see any boys out there riding bikes or exploring or playing the way we would have done almost daily when I was young. Some of it is overprotective parents, much of it is simply a lack of imagination brought on by an excess of indoor entertainments.
I never cease to be deeply saddened by this loss: children today are so impoverished, and unnecessarily so. They have more stuff, but fewer and narrower experiences (despite greater travel and multiple organized activities).
More here.
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