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More >>Thank you for reading Stanford's alumni blogs. We want to notify our readers that we're taking our alumni writings in a new direction--forming one big community of bloggers rather than many blogs with specific topics. The blogs you've been reading continue to be available, but as archives only. All new posts will be on a single Alumni Blog (Click here to set up RSS notification). The bloggers whose writings you've enjoyed will, we hope, continue contributing on the Alumni Blog along with a whole new crop of bloggers writing about new topics. So jump in! Become a guest blogger, or simply read and comment on posts.
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Posted by Ms. Summer Moore Batte on Jun 21 2011 1:02PM | 0 comments
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Our Hurried Children
“The concept of childhood, so vital to the traditional American way of life, is threatened with extinction in the society we have created. Today’s child has become the unwilling victim of overwhelming stress—the stress borne of rapid, bewildering social change and constantly rising expectations.”
When were these words written? If you are thinking they’re from a recent educational symposium or an address by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, you would be wrong. The words are from 1981, written by then-controversial child psychologist and author David Elkind, Ph.D. What, we said? Our children hurried? How could that be when childhood in America is as sacrosanct as Mom’s apple pie and the 4th of July?
Because it wa...Posted by Ms. Charlene Scholtes Margot on Jun 8 2010 5:41PM | 1 comments
