Author Topic: Doctors say let kids play (Read 1784 times)

B from A · « **Reply #5 on:** September 11, 2018, 08:16:56 AM »

Screen time v play time: what tech leaders won't let their own kids do

Maria Regina · « **Reply #6 on:** September 11, 2018, 12:52:51 PM »

Rainy Day Play

I remember my mom would get some old clean blankets, bring them into the living/dining room, and say, "Make a fort".

We would situate the dining room chairs to make our fort, get pillows from our bedroom to line the floor of the fort, and then drape blankets over them. Then we would go inside the fort where it was warm, and in the darkness soon fall asleep. It was like camping. Smart mom!

Mom could then do her household chores without interruption. Often she would go into the kitchen and bake a couple of apple pies.

We would awake to the delightful odor of cinnamon and baked apple pie, and have our afternoon snack.

Geremia · « **Reply #7 on:** September 11, 2018, 01:17:40 PM »

    "If you want to be more creative," wrote the [child] psychologist Jean Piaget, "stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society."
    J. Robert Oppenheimer agreed: "There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago." [This corroborates Nihil est in intellectu quod prius in sensu!]
    Thomas Edison agreed too: "The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child."     So did Will Durant: "…the child knows as much of cosmic truth as Einstein did in the ecstasy of his final formula."
    Which is curiously close to what Albert Einstein himself said: "I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of time and space. These are things that he has thought of as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up."

[...]

    "Kids are natural-born scientists," said Carl Sagan. "First of all, they ask the deep scientific questions: Why is the moon round? Why is the sky blue? What's a dream? Why do we have toes? What's the birthday of the world? By the time they get into high school, they hardly ever ask questions like that."
     "Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods," agreed Neil Postman.
     Become a question mark again.

—How to Get Ideas (p. 27-30) by Foster & Corby

songbird · « **Reply #8 on:** September 11, 2018, 05:26:56 PM »

yes, Maria, I can remember those days. I am a 1952 baby. We made the forts inside and outside on the clothes line. My mom and dad decided to leave the city and go to the country. Our home was a old brick school house. Woods behind it. We were allowed to go into the woods and we did play. Sometimes poison ivy, some times we ran from snakes. We picked wild flowers, wild strawberries and blackberries. We skipped the creeks and the fun in the snow.

We had someone on our side, who spoke for us, Captain Kangaroo. He would end his show, "Give the children what they want most, Give them your time."

So, I did that with our kids. Let the work go sometimes and go to the park with a picnic lunch.

Or, to say to the kids, If you wish to do... do your work and I promise you to do it.

My mom believed to let a child be a child, for if you don't, when they get older, they may want to be a child. Ha!

Maria Regina · « **Reply #9 on:** September 12, 2018, 12:20:37 AM »

I honestly believe that the 1953 Peter Pan movie did a lot to destroy the USA, especially the song, "I won't grow up."

https://www.lyricsondemand.com/soundtracks/p/peterpanlyrics/iwontgrowuplyrics.html

Quote

Peter Pan Soundtrack Lyrics

I WON'T GROW UP Lyrics

PETER PAN:
Are you ready for today's lesson?

ALL:
Yes, Peter!

PETER PAN:
Listen to your teacher. Repeat after me:
I won't grow up,
(I won't grow up)
I don't want to go to school.
(I don't want to go to school)
Just to learn to be a parrot,
(Just to learn to be a parrot)
And recite a silly rule.
(And recite a silly rule)
If growing up means
It would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree,
I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up
Not me!
Not I,
Not me!
Not me!
I won't grow up,
(I won't grow up)
I don't want to wear a tie.
(I don't want to wear a tie)
And a serious expression
(And a serious expression)
In the middle of July.
(In the middle of July)
And if it means I must prepare
To shoulder burdens with a worried air,

I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up
Not me,
Not I,
Not me!
So there!
Never gonna be a man,
I won't!
Like to see somebody try
And make me.
Anyone who wants to try
And make me turn into a man,
Catch me if you can.
I won't grow up.
Not a penny will I pinch.
I will never grow a mustache,
Or a fraction of an inch.
'Cause growing up is awfuller
Than all the awful things that ever were.
I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up,
No sir,
Not I,
Not me,
So there!

source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/soundtracks/p/peterpanlyrics/iwontgrowuplyrics.html

Today's children love to be entertained.
They demand movies, cartoons, smart phones, and games.
Play takes too much effort, time, and creativity.
With movies, a child can sit on a couch and eat junk food all day long.
No wonder childhood diabetes and obesity is increasing.
Children neither have the time nor the incentive to run outside and play.

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