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People who grew up in the 1970s without scheduled activities, organized playdates, or weekend programming didn't miss out on childhood — they had the last version of it that included the small daily experience of being trusted, unwatched, and free to fill an afternoon however they wanted, something the culture has been quietly removing from children's lives ever since - The Artful Parent
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People who grew up in the 1970s without scheduled activities, organized playdates, or weekend programming didn't miss out on childhood — they had the last version of it that included the small daily experience of being trusted, unwatched, and free to fill an afternoon however they wanted, something the culture has been quietly removing from children's lives ever since
Ask anyone who was nine in 1978 what they did on a Saturday and the answer is usually some version of: nothing in particular, for hours. That answer used to be ordinary. It is not anymore, and the shift can be measured. Sociologists Sandra Hofferth and John Sandberg, in their study 'Changes in American Children's Time, 1981–1997,' used two large time-diary datasets to track what American children aged three to twelve actually did across their weeks. Between those two snapshots, time in organized sports, day care, and structured art activities rose substantially. Time in unstructured play, household visiting, and passive
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