Summary Of Hey ! Parents Leave Those Kids Alone By Hanna Rosin

The practitioner in an early years setting supporting children’s play learning and development is extremely important, as play helps stimulate the child’s brain, supports their needs on an educational level, as well as helping them with social difficulties such as building relationships, developing them and helping them gain confidence. Many people believe that a child learns best when they are motivated, such as Fredrich Froebel. He believed that children benefitted from all types of play. The McMillan sisters believed that outdoor play was extra important as they studied children who played and slept outside and discovered that they were the happier and healthier children in comparison to those who only played inside.

As we all know mother does know best, yet in some cases mother can do more harm than good. There is a big debate on how people are raising the newest generations and whether or not they are properly being introduced into the realities of our society. Are children being spoiled too much or not enough? This topic is thoroughly discussed by Alfie Kohn in his essay, “ The One-sided Culture War against Children” and by Nick Gillespie within his essay, “The Current State of Childhood: Is “Helicopter Parenting” or “Free-Range Childhood” Better for Kids?”. Although Kohn offers valid explanations, Gillespie does surpass Kohn’s explanations; parents need to be less overbearing and stop pampering their children.

There is an overarching theme of inequality woven throughout Lareau’s study, Unequal Childhoods: class, race, and family life. The book investigates and compares the daily lives of middle class, lower class and working class families’. Using observations from two elementary schools, interviews with students and parents, and the observation of twelve homes, Lareau studies how parenting and childhood differ by social class. Concerted Cultivation is prominent in the middle-class homes, where their parents, often affecting their lives as well, organize children’s activities. Followed by Natural Growth, which focuses on children’s basic needs and offers children less supervision over their daily activities.

Too many minors have committed violent crimes and haven’t gotten the consequences they deserved. In Time magazine article, “Children without Pity” written by Nancy Traver, it shows how the crime rates are going up and many minors aren’t getting the consequence they need. Given the violence of their actions, minors who commit violent crimes should be tried as adults.

Modern-day, stresses and nerves – and, it ought to be said, an open-air world which truly is less youngster amicable than ever before – has prompted a hazard opposed a culture that discovers expression in oppressive well-being and security arrangements which neglect to measure the advantages of a given movement against the dangers included. Suppliers of kids' play areas, in a similar manner as numerous open administrations, are in dread in case of even minor scratches. So they progressively blunder in favour of alert, putting intensely in effect retaining surfaces and gear that thoroughly meets well-being gauges yet regularly needs genuine play value.Free and unstructured play in the outside lifts critical thinking abilities, centre and self-restraint. Socially, it enhances participation, adaptability, and mindfulness. Enthusiastic advantages incorporate diminished animosity and expanded happiness.Children will be more quick-witted, better ready to coexist with others, more beneficial and more joyful when they have normal open doors for nothing and unstructured play in the out-of-entryways. In a current study a third of kids believed that there was a leaf that can soothe a nettle sting; as per the review, more than seventy-percent of the youngsters that participated in the research have never climbed a tree. Abominable! Ask anybody more than forty to relate to you their most loved recollections of adolescence play, and few will be inside. Less still will include a grown-up.

I just recently had the opportunity to read the magazine article from The Atlantic titled “The Overprotected Kid” by Hanna Rosin. This article constantly critiques and bashes society along with the parenting styles of today. I agree with Rosin that parents are too protective over their children because parents today are holding back their children and are preventing them from many experiences. Fortunately, my parents were not part of this trend, allowing me to explore and learn from my own experiences and mistakes. Playgrounds are becoming to a point that is almost too safe and children are taking less risks. Playgrounds and parents are not allowing kids to learn on their own and experience life while taking risks.

In the essay, “Can Playgrounds be too Safe” by John Tierney, he argues that children should not be sheltered from playground equipment that some may consider unsafe, because they need to encounter challenges, such as, high jungle gyms to help them with phobias throughout life. I agree with him that many playgrounds have become too safe, especially for the older children. Children like to be adventurous and I think the playground helps them develop the ability to continue trying without giving up. I was one of the children that played on the so called “unsafe playground equipment” and I remember the feeling of making it to the top of the jungle gym or all the way across the monkey bars; I

“The developed world deprives children of a basic and inalienable right: unstructured outdoor play. Children today have substantially less access to nature, less free range, and less time for independent play than previous generations had.” This quote is from the research based paper titled, “Where the Wild Things Should Be: Healing Nature Deficit Disorder through the Schoolyard." This article touches many aspects of how children now a days need more exposure to nature like it was on the older days. Currently, there are many playgrounds around the United States and even more the world. This article is trying to bring awareness to the problem of if playgrounds do not have enough nature or is too safe then it is

In Susan Maushart’s essay “When My Kids Unplugged” she talks about what it was like for her children when she wouldn’t let them keep using their electronics because they were so engrossed with them. Maushart talks about the change that each child went though. She talks about how her son Bill is able to go back to playing his saxophone, and how he really changed after the first week of his separation anxiety from his devices. Maushart says, “UP to that point, Bill had barley picked up his instrument in two years” (99). His sister Sussy, also ended up switching her friend groups since she wasn’t online talking to them anymore.

The relationship between play and learning seems obvious to many child professionals and parents, and yet there are still lack of understanding surrounding the importance of children's play. Some people believe that children need to "work" not play, and that playing serves no useful purpose in a learning and development environment. This is surprising considering that play, with its high levels of motivation and potential enjoyment empowers children (as well as people

Some sociologists such as Postman (1994) argue that childhood is ‘disappearing at a dazzling speed’ as he says by giving children the

It is difficult to picture a city or town without a park or a playground for everyone to enjoy free of charge. This thought is not as far fetched, as some might believe. The massive movement for communities to provide public lands for relaxation, leisure and play has its roots in the Progressive Reforms around the turn of the twentieth century. The congestion of urban centers and the fading concept of child labor creates unintended consequences such as an increase in crime, lack of natural landscape and no place for children to play. To combat this problem cities across the country begin the process of implementing government inspired play to replace the open country that children generations before used as their playground.

While Children must not be exposed to harm in the realization of their rights under Article 31, some degree of risk and challenge is integral to play and recreational activities and it is necessary component of the the benefits of these activities A balance is needed between, on one hand, taking action to reduce unacceptable hazards in children’s environments such as, closing local streets to traffic, improving street lighting or creating safe boundaries for school playgrounds and on the other hand informing, equipping and empowering children to take the necessary precautions to enhance their own

Play is a way for children to learn about their environment and how interaction occurs within. It is through trial and error that children are able to create options; follow their own interests and show “independence in thought and actions” using their knowledge and understanding (Moyles, 2005, p.3). Children develop resilience though play. However for a number of children can experience stressful occurrences during their lives and play can often be restricted. Therefore the play worker’s role in supporting children’s play is a crucial measure towards children's development. For those that work with children require the dexterity to prompt and contribute to children’s play, which can be seen as a principle aspect of therapeutic alliance.

The most important thing that I have learned in Anji Play workshop is to encourage children the risky play. I used to set many limits for children outside because I am concern too much about children’s safety. Through Anji workshop, I have truly understood the value of the risky play at outdoor. I have learned that risky play is not only good for children’s health but also stimulates creativity, social skills and resilience. This spaces offer children an opportunity to learn about risk and their own limits. Just like the playground in Anji, natural elements such as trees and plants changes in height, can be considered to implement in the playgrounds of USA school, and having freedom