Should children be given more free time or not?

[Kouvb593kdnuewnd]

What do you think should children get more time outside of shool and should parent and other not force them do other activites or should they spend more time on forced activites?

Its not a simple poll but its about discusion about this issue.

Sorry if wrote some things wrong/made it hard to understand what Im asking for.
If somebody don't understand what I have written please post in this thread

 

[Tahuti]

Children should spend more times with their parents.

Governments subsidise day care way too much as it is already.

 

[Snorrius]

What do you think should children get more time outside of shool and should parent and other not force them do other activites or should they spend more time on forced activites?

I think it is up to parent to decide how much time their children should devote to which activity.

 

[Kouvb593kdnuewnd]

I think it is up to parent to decide how much time their children should devote to which activity.

But what if it is not good for the child.

 

[bhsup]

I am not a parent so I could be way off base here, but I just cannot imagine this being a one-size-fits-all situation. Some kids are going to need more structure, some are going to thrive with less structure. I would think. Which is why it should be left to the parents, you know, the people who know their kid best.

 

[warpus]

I think children should have their time divided between doing chores at home and playing outside with (non pointed) sticks.

 

[Kouvb593kdnuewnd]

Anyone know about William Sidis and what in my opinion his parent made him out to be?

Im only 21 years old and far from being a parent.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I think children should have their time divided between doing chores at home and playing outside with (non pointed) sticks.

I thought this sentence would end with "doing chores at my home".

 

[Snorrius]

But what if it is not good for the child.

Who is to define what is good and what is not for the child? A childless state employee who got her bachelor degree in pseudoscientific branch of psychology but did not get wisdom and a husband?

 

[Smellincoffee]

"Free" time? If by free we mean time to sit texting and watching YouTube, no. If we mean freeing them from the classroom -- a dismal place to spend one's youth, bursting with energy yet being constrained to sit all day, surrounded by vicious chimp-politics in t-shirts and brand-name shoes -- to spend their time productively, then yes! By all means. Children should be free to explore, to learn, to grow authentically -- I've retained more from my Tom-Sawyer like summer adventures than any time spent in a school-warehouse. I personally think education should be handled by the parents, but these days parents are locked up in warehouses of their own, and have had so much of their life eaten up by automation that unless they are devoted to a craft or intellectual school, they know nothing of consequence. Most parents are incapable these days of even teaching children how to cook or maintain their homes -- that's what stores and repairmen are for.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

"Free" time? If by free we mean time to sit texting and watching YouTube, no.

Since when was it mandated that you buy your kid electronics from a very young age?

 

[Borachio]

I think there's a good case to be made for getting children to do "homework" at school, after normal lessons end. This would greatly benefit those with a more chaotic home life.

So less free time. But more freer free time.

 

[Camikaze]

More than what?

 

[Borachio]

More than they have now, I think it means.

I heard that Pygmy parenting is a model of letting children do pretty much exactly as they choose.

http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/ushanda_io_elima.html

Pygmy Proverbs:

"Goodness and kindness put an end to badness."

"God returns the good that one does."

"With truth one may reach God."

"A bad mother is not a mother."

"Children are people's treasures."

 

[Camikaze]

I don't think they all have the same amount.

 

[Borachio]

No. I don't suppose they do. But they could each of them still have more free time than they do now. Assuming that not all their time is free already.

I took the OP to be referring to the average child in the developed world.

 

[Perfection]

No, get back to coal mining, ruffian.

 

[Camikaze]

I took the OP to be referring to the average child in the developed world.

Probably, but I don't know what the average is.

 

[Kouvb593kdnuewnd]

The context cover all of the world.

 

[Traitorfish]

I am not a parent so I could be way off base here, but I just cannot imagine this being a one-size-fits-all situation. Some kids are going to need more structure, some are going to thrive with less structure. I would think. Which is why it should be left to the parents, you know, the people who know their kid best.

I broadly agree, but I'd quibble the claim that it's a decision to be left simply to the parents, for the reason that parents are by definition amateurs. They know their children best insofar as they possess the greatest individual familiarity, but they don't necessarily know what to do with that information, so they should be willing able to rely on the advice of a professional with less individual familiarity but a stronger general understanding for children's behaviour might be better. We already take this as self-evident when it applies to developmentally abnormal children, because we understand that psychologists and other specialists understand these conditions in ways the parents do not. So I think it follows that the parents of developmentally normal children should be willing to defer to specialists (by which I suppose I mostly mean teachers), if not quite so heavily, who better understand children-in-general.