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Do Nothing Parenting - workshops to undo the damages of schooling

A Country Called Childhood,’ by Jay Griffiths
Griffiths points out that the word “bored” appeared only after 1750, in the beginning of a capitalist age, and that Dickens coined the word “boredom.” “Children reared on toys and products provided by corporations are learning a terrible lesson: They are learning that they have a scarcity within, that they cannot provide for their own play, or rely on their own imagination, that they are impoverished beggars of the entertainment industry.” She explains, “If children can’t pretend, they are condemned to someone else’s reality.” This, in turn, leads to children who become “the possessions of their possessions.” She describes manufacturers as “privatizers of the commons of dream” and says that “consumerism for children is a form of cultural pedophilia.” Such children “suffer from the utilitarianism of today; they are impoverished by modernity’s literalism.”
https://www.nytimes.com/.../a-country-called-childhood-by....