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lizi -> RE: Invincible, Ignorant, or Unsupervised? (1/17/2012 11:09:32 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Fornica
My question is this..do you think for kids that age, it's a matter of thinking they're invincible, are they ignorant (in the true sense of the word), or are they bored, playing on their macbooks while Mommy and Daddy ignore them?
I feel old.
In most cases I feel that the child can be all three- unsupervised, probably ignorant of possible consequences, and also invincible - kids dont' know much about life until they've experienced it. The invincible part isn't generally the result of an in your face type attitude, it's more that things happen that they don't have the experience to foresee. In fact the part of the brain that assess consequences doesn't mature till early 20's. This is a big reason why kids are such big risktakers, they literally cannot project along the road of "what would happen if...".
My experiences as an elementary school teacher shows that a huge amount of kids are unsupervised. Shocking really. There is so much that happens in those circumstances. Plus now they've got access to computers and all of the information that brings. They don't live in a small world anymore, their world has ever-expanding boundaries, but they're without the supervision to navigate it safely and being kids they take risks without knowing it, or without the capacity to judge what will happen.
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