{"id":472,"date":"2008-08-04T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=472"},"modified":"2008-08-04T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T09:50:00","slug":"dont-stop-children-from-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/dont-stop-children-from-playing\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t stop children from playing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.playday.org.uk\/playday_campaigns\/2008_give_us_a_go\/2008_research.aspx\">Another report has been published<\/a> which shows the sad increase in over-protectiveness by parents of their children.<\/p>\n<p>Parents are increasingly denying children the opportunity to learn naturally, to enjoy life and to be children.\u00a0 The consequences for those children are not just a more boring life today, but also less enjoyable and successful life as adults.\u00a0 Climbing trees and similar games is a way of learning how to solve real life problems as well as building body-mind-spirit (emotion) connections and compatibility.<\/p>\n<p>It is important for parents to be there for their children, but it is equally important to let them grow up.\u00a0 Even at the tender age of 7 a human being has many faculties that allow them to survive, as is proven by young people in developing countries and even in rich countries a century ago.\u00a0 If these abilities are not allowed to develop, the resulting adult will be less competent and less happy.\u00a0 Let children play.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/7540076.stm\">BBC report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another report has been published which shows the sad increase in over-protectiveness by parents of their children. Parents are increasingly denying children the opportunity to learn naturally, to enjoy life and to be children.\u00a0 The consequences for those children are not just a more boring life today, but also less enjoyable and successful life as &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/dont-stop-children-from-playing\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t stop children from playing!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-7C","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}