Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It

Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by subpixel on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:34PM (#17222757)

There was a great radio program a few years ago - which I cannot find at the moment - about a sociology study that focused on a small town in Vermont or New Hampshire in the 1970s where kids essentially ran free and just came home to eat.

The program went back to the same town and interviewed the same kids, now parents, to find out how they were raising their own children. Fascinatingly, they had all become strict parents who never let their kids out of their sight.

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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by wolfgke on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:27PM (#17223098)

> The program went back to the same town and interviewed the same kids, now parents, to find out how they were raising their own children. Fascinatingly, they had all become strict parents who never let their kids out of their sight.

Just some kind of hypothesis based on personal observation: The children who were really untamed have a tendency not to become parents later on when grown up (I really don't want to try a shot in the dark for the reasons). Those who were "tamer among the wild" as children were tamed even more by society, procreated and are now strict parents.

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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by ako on Monday June 04, 2018 @01:32AM (#17224929)

I blame televion, continuously watching crime, both real and fiction, conditions us to continuously be afraid.

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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by taneq on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:44AM (#17225746)

The kids who roamed free know how many scrapes and near misses they got into, and they don't want to expose their own kids to the same hazards?

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