Screening: “Where Do The Children Play?”
posted: June 14, 2008 | category: Uncategorized
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From Liz:
The Fund for Democratic Communities and the Greensboro Montessori School are co-sponsoring a screening of the new PBS documentary “Where Do the Children Play?” at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 28 at the HIVE, 1214 Grove Street.
“Where Do the Children Play?” examines an issue of growing concern among pediatricians, mental health experts, educators, and environmentalists: more and more children are growing up today with little or no opportunity for unstructured play, especially outdoors. “When you think about it, for tens of thousands of years children spent much of their childhood playing or working in natural settings,” says Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, and one of the experts who appears in the film. “Within the space of two or three decades in Western society, particularly in the United States, that’s in danger of ending. This is a radical change in a very short period of time. It’s got to have important, perhaps profound implications for mental health, physical health, and spiritual health — for who we are.”
The June 28 film screening is the initial event in a year-long community discussion about the state of childhood and play in Greensboro. Richard Louv will be at the Greensboro Montessori School on September 25 for a talk and book signing.
WHAT: Screening of the PBS documentary “Where Do the Children Play?”
WHEN: Saturday, June 28, 6:00 p.m.
WHERE: The HIVE, 1214 Grove StreetFOR MORE INFORMATION: Muktha Jost, 549-0733, mjost@ncat.edu
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I am fortunate to live in a woodsy, leafy neighborhood where we even see blue herons at our pond and deer running around. Even with that, my daughter does not seem to spend much time outdoors in what you would call “unstructured time” — certainly not as much as I did as a boy. I definitely think it’s the outcome of several factors operating together — safety fears, neighbors not knowing each other as well as they used to, and mainly the over-programming that we often do to modern kids. Thanks for letting me know about the exitence of this film.
when i was little, we played in the street (dead-end road), and in the creeks (lots of salamanders and frogs), and chased the neighbor’s cows when they got out (this was within the city limits, by the way.) that same street is a major thoroughfare now. a few years back, i saw a child get hit by a car while riding a bicycle (with his mom beside him) on this no-longer-dead-end and very busy road — in the exact same spot where dozens of us used to stand in the street and play foursquare as kids (while the moms were inside.) times change.