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A comment on All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed (2011). Parent comment

Re:All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depresse... by Angostura on Friday May 11, 2018 @10:13AM (#17047404)
> If not, they learn actions have consequences.

Some of which are potentially fatal.

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Re:All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depresse... by mieseratte on Friday May 11, 2018 @10:36AM (#17047573)
We can't just stop letting folks live life because something bad might happen. Otherwise we'll just say "Think of the children" and ban everything.

  Why don't we put pads on the kids, helmets, head gear and mouth pieces
  Then we could pad the floor and walls, put cameras inside bathroom stalls

  NOFX - Separation of Church and Skate[0]
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Re:All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depresse... by Angostura on Friday May 11, 2018 @05:30PM (#17050936)
If only there was some way of navigating between "I let my kids do anything" and "I let my kids do nothing".
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Re:All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depresse... by s_m_t on Friday May 11, 2018 @08:11PM (#17051637)
Odd, we don't let adults do "anything" but somehow we don't place all of them under virtual house arrest
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Re:All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depresse... by mieseratte on Friday May 11, 2018 @06:04PM (#17051072)
Well, I certainly never suggested letting ones kids "do anything," only noting that the point of letting kids roam is to afford them some freedom as individuals.
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