In Defense of Childhood

Author: Chris Mercogliano
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B001S0TTJ4

In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids' Inner Wildness

As codirector of the Albany Free School, Chris Mercogliano has had remarkable success in helping a diverse population of youngsters find their way in the world. Download In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids' Inner Wildness from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. He regrets, however, that most kids' lives are subject to some form of control from dawn until dusk. Lamenting risk-averse parents, overstructured school days, and a lack of playtime and solitude, Mercogliano argues that we are robbing our young people of "that precious, irreplaceable period in their lives that nature has set aside for exploration and innocent discovery," leaving them ill-equipped to face adulthood. The "domestication of childhood" squeezes the adventure out of kids' lives and threatens to smother the spark that animates each child with talents, dreams, and inclinations.

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