"I have to say for anybody, whether you're sending your child to school or not. Being able to hook your kid up with a real peer group is difficult in our society today because we don't let kids out just to play as we once did. 🧠
When I was a kid, you know, mom's just said, get out of the house, that's all they had to say and everybody else is mom was saying, get out of the house and so the kids are all out of the house.
So they found one another, we found one another, made friends and did all kinds of things, got into mischievous, did all the things that kids have always done throughout history, and that's how we grew up. 🔥
But now it's harder for kids to find one another, in a way that they're not being directed and supervised, monitored by adults. So, that is a challenge, their ways of beating that challenge.
But I think, I think in some sense, that's what that's the biggest parenting challenge right now, is how to find a real peer group. Help your child, find a real peer group, and by peer group, I don't necessarily mean all the same age. I mean, people who are other kids, people who are over as the spectrum of childhood and teenage years." 🦖
Peter Gray for Wild Life - The Unschooling Podcast
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