Growing up before the 90's - Much different than today!

I like the idea that once upon a time our society benefited from seeing children intermingling more.

We were low tech, dirty, rough on each other... but we played together ceaselessly, were bug and allergy resistant. Then the world filled us with processed food and pesticides, technology and sugar. We were given too much for too little and developed chistocentric guilt for not maintaining either the restlessness of our age (with its protest and humanity) nor the determination to improve the health of society and the planet by taking on status quo assumptions maintaining power/wealth disequilibrium.

These things in view of current post-modern neo apocalyptic engorged self-centrism shows us naive. In a world of new blog journalism thoughts are sound bit, quick witted. They fall short of rationality. That said, the parts I liked about this article were the sentiments about children playing with each other, self entertaining, low tech with less fear of ever present psycho killer predators! I agree with the analysis about over parenting and over prescribing and over diagnosing. How did we benefit?

Lucidity: Let's try giving our children a chance first; when we are not selling out or drug numbed we hold up mantles of faith, peace, and creative riffing. I was floored to hear the rate of diagnosis of six year olds with ADHD was 60% higher if they were part of the younger half of the class - and male.