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The Village Electric's avatar

What if children were actually perfectly designed for childhood? I think this idea is closer to the way nature works than our current understanding. A snail is much less sophisticated than a human, but it is still perfectly designed to be a snail. Yes, children are vulnerable and immature, but they come hardwired with the tools they need to develop into adults. If more of us, parents and educators alike, really understood this, then we could spend less time “fixing” kids who are fine and more time addressing children who have somehow gotten off-track from what nature intended for them…and finding out why. Spoiler alert, it usually has something to do with us adults!

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Michael Hawke's avatar

I'm a youth coach and I see this all the time. Early maturing kids get all the benefits of selection/recruiting/coaching while those whose DNA is telling their bodies and minds to wait a while get cut and are lost in our adult 'fetish' of turning kids into mini-adults so we can WIN!! Often the answer to any skill development question is... wait a year. Piaget showed us that. "Every flower blooms in it's own time".

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