A friend of mine read my latest post and alerted me to a recent Time Magazine article titled: Free the Children: Summer should be a time when rules can be bent and boredom is a state of grace. In the article, Nancy Gibbs writes:

"I want summer not to count because what happens as a result counts for so much. Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind. Ask friends about the people and places that shaped them, and summer springs up quickly when they tell their story: their first kiss, first beer, first job that changed everything. The best summer moments were stretchy enough to carry us all through the year, which is why it's worth listening to all the warnings from social scientists about our Hurried Children who for the rest of the year wear their schedules like clothes that are too tight."

Posted by Susan at 7/17/2003 09:59:21 AM | Link