In the U.S.Journal of Physical Education,Recreation Dance,New Jersey assistant principal and hockey coach Bobbie Schultz writes that playing in the street after school with neighbourhood kids--creating their own rules,making their own decisions and settling disputes--was where the real learning took place. The street was one of the greatest sources of my life skills, she says. I dont see on-the-street play anymore.I see adult-organized activities.Parents dont realize what an integral part of character development their children are missing.
Armoured with bicycle helmets,car seats, safe playgrounds and sunscreen,children are getting the message loud and clear that the world is full or peril--and that theyre ill-equipped to handle it alone.Yet research consistently shows young people are much more capable than we think,says professor Anne Smith,director of New Zealands Childrens Issues Centre. The thing that many adults have difficulty with is that children cant learn to be grown-up if theyre excluded and protected all the time.
Educational psychologist Paul Prangley reckons its about time the kid gloves came off.He believes parenting has taken on a paranoid(患妄想狂的)edge thats creating a generation of naive,insecure youngsters who are subconsciously being taught theyre incapable of handing things by themselves. Flexibility and the ability to resist pressure and temptation are learned skills, Prangley explains. If you wrap kids up in cotton wool and dont give them the opportunity to take risks,theyre less equipped to make responsible decisions later in life.
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