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[...] Play time is in short supply for children these days and the lifelong consequences for developing children can be more serious than many people realize.
An article in the most recent issue of the American Journal of Play details not only how much children's play time has declined, but how this lack of play affects emotional development, leading to the rise of anxiety, depression, and problems of attention and self control.
[...] Gray describes this kind of unstructured, freely-chosen play as a testing ground for life. It provides critical life experiences without which young children cannot develop into confident and competent adults. Gray's article is meant to serve as a wake-up call regarding the effects of lost play, and he believes that lack of childhood free play time is a huge loss that must be addressed for the sake of our children and society.
Parents who hover over and intrude on their children's play are a big part of the problem, according to Gray. "It is hard to find groups of children outdoors at all, and, if you do find them, they are likely to be wearing uniforms and following the directions of coaches while their parents dutifully watch and cheer." He cites a study which assessed the way 6- to 8-year-olds spent their time in 1981 and again in 1997.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 13 2018, @12:31AM (1 child)
Makes me wonder what the other half of the story is to reports of white idiots calling the cops on black people for no reason at all.
With police violence, we see that while black people are disproportionately victimized, by headcount, more white people are victimized. The common thread is that they're working class, not to mention Hispanic immigrants.
Now I wonder how many white people get cops called on them for no reason. Same story as police violence? Proportionately victimizing more blacks and Hispanic immigrants but by headcount more white with the common thread of being in the working class.
Otoh, if you're feeding 11 children, you're probably not working class, unless you're doing so with my tax dollars, which is fine. Perhaps we'll find that proxy harassment by CPS is what the remaining middle class faces.
It's a generation of soy boys and incels, and for whatever reason the D team, after spending so many resources on shaping that generation into failures, is now determined to completely alienate them from ever supporting the D team again. Polls show that incels and soy boys are overwhelmingly R team. Ridicule the alt-right all you want. The more you ridicule it, the stronger it will get....
N.B. I don't want the alt-right. I'm just making an observation. What "alt-right" means has changed a lot since Moldbug. It's increasingly including more and more people who are livid with the status quo and frankly just flat out tired of this shit.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 13 2018, @02:11AM
Finances for a large family are weird. You can feel sort of well-off and poor at the same time. On a per-person basis, I sometimes qualify for government assistance, though I don't want any government workers in my life so that is a "NO" from me. I get all my taxes refunded, and usually a bit more. I guess that makes me poor? On the other hand, I'm earning about 5x the median income and I'm above the 90th percentile. My wife is obviously staying at home. I can afford things that are per-family, but not things that are per-person.
Proxy harassment by CPS is frightfully common. I resist dishing it out, even to people I hate, but I can see the temptation. It's easy, normally anonymous, and effective. I only know about the neighbor's friend because she bragged to somebody and that made it back to me.
I can give you the other side of my experience calling cops on black people. I saw them after dark, entering a home that had been foreclosed upon and was then bank-owned. They also seemed to be taking pictures of my kids, which was creepy. My continued observation (after the cops were already called) makes me think they were probably a family business contracted by the bank to neaten things up, and that the flashes of light from cell phones were just to see better in the dark. The cops sent them away, but without arrest, so I guess the black people had a half-good excuse as far as the cops were concerned.