tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4517975954525772490.post8180427979666465828..comments2023-05-16T10:41:17.498-04:00Comments on Unfulfilled Expectations: "Liber"ty Lost (For Mary O)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18230620834103702024noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4517975954525772490.post-57640212664648533852011-02-20T11:51:07.345-05:002011-02-20T11:51:07.345-05:00Virtually all the of the kids I grew up with went ...Virtually all the of the kids I grew up with went to college and yet we still had the free time to develop and pursue outside interests. Going back further, to the early sixties, we also enjoyed long stretches of unstructured time that no adults had to plan, pay for, or drive us to: it was called "going out to play," and it took place on porches, in back yards, and like good 'ol Cosby, on semi-quiet streets. <br /><br />These things let us see and be seen by peers, let us develop identities and individualities that guided us through subsequent choices.<br />Thirty years later, most of that was crowded out for my kids under the burden of huge amounts of homework. We seem to give our middle school and high-schoolers much longer working days than we have ourselves, and that's saying something.<br /><br />It is out of hand. See the backlash to the "Tiger Mother" book; that's a good first sign.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03660950808446055193noreply@blogger.com