{"id":30303,"date":"2019-09-17T23:01:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T04:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30303"},"modified":"2019-09-17T23:01:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T04:01:55","slug":"briefly-child-development-expert-says-to-stop-the-adultification-of-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30303","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Child development expert says to stop the \u2018adultification\u2019 of childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Importance-of-Being-Little.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30304\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Importance-of-Being-Little.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Importance-of-Being-Little.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Importance-of-Being-Little-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most adults are so busy trying to force little children to act like miniature adults that they don\u2019t allow kids the healthy development they need. Researcher Erika Christakis says this is because most adults don\u2019t seem to understand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/article\/whats-lost-when-we-rush-kids-through-childhood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the importance of being little<\/a>.\u00a0Christakis is a former faculty member of the\u00a0Yale Child Study Center, and she says today\u2019s parents are so eager to \u201cinvest in the future\u201d for their children that they completely lose sight of the fact that being \u201clittle\u201d \u2014 and doing child-like things \u2014 will give their children better outcomes than their \u201cadultification\u201d of childhood. Children desperately need more unstructured play and more unstructured time in general with adults who are willing to allow them to be little investigators rather than sponges for stuffing with dry facts. The very things which most affluent parents believe are helping their children get ahead are setting them up for failure instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most adults are so busy trying to force little children to act like miniature adults that they don\u2019t allow kids the healthy development they need. Researcher Erika Christakis says this is because most adults don\u2019t seem to understand the importance of being little.\u00a0Christakis is a former faculty member of the\u00a0Yale Child Study Center, and she <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30303\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-briefly","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7SL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30305,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30303\/revisions\/30305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}