The America You Grew Up In No Longer Exists

[Unschooling]

“If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.” ~ Pearl S. Buck

The America You Grew Up In No Longer Exists

NATIONAL EMERGENCY: Decline in Independent Activity as a Cause of Decline in Children’s Mental Well-being

“It is no secret that rates of anxiety and depression among school-aged children and teens in the US are at an all-time high.” This study references tons of resources… https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(23)00111-7/fulltext https://www.npr.org/2023/10/31/1209763238/how-lack-of-independent-play-is-impacting-childrens-mental-health https://www.unschooling.com/t/children-s-teens-suicides-related-to-the-school-calendar/244 https://www.unschooling.com/t/mental-health-crisis/2649 https://…

What this Girl Wrote will STOP YOU in Your Tracks! | Buddy Brown

Free Play

Free Play is non-existent at schools and is essential for Self Discovery, Curiosity, and Creativity to flourish which are squashed and squandered at schools. Play based learning gives children the opportunity to develop The Five C’s of Education. "Unschooling is not about the discovery of any particular body of knowledge. It is about the discovery of self." ~ Ben Hewitt [Home Grown] "Self-education through play and exploration requires enormous amounts of unscheduled time—time to do whateve…

Free Range Kids and the Gov't Fear of a Healthy Childhood

Top Comment: “We’re raising a generation of mindless zombies who have no clue what the real world is like.” ~ Hayseed Homestead [Free Range Kids and the Gov't Fear of a Healthy Childhood]

Free Range Kids

Dr. Karen and this is from 2016, quite fitting: John Stossel [John Stossel - Free Range Kids] Here is another John Stossel video:

Disowning Your Children

Basically parents are playing a game of Hunger Games or even worse Squid Game with their family! The only thing parents really have to do consistently is sleep in the same house as their children. Most parents enslave their children in schools instead of taking responsibility for their own children, they pawn them off to society to raise. Children today are growing up having to navigate a complex system of control that only seeks to destroy them while parents follow along with what has become no…

American Society is So Enslaved, We Have To Pass Laws Just For Children To Play Outside

Imagine how badly our society has failed in having 2 enact laws just 4 our children to exp. a small taste of freedom & yet a large number of ppl still think we live in a free country! Thousands of laws have created a lawless society, but letting children play is against the law.

Cookie Cutter Neighborhoods Have Ruined Childhood

"Son why don’t you go out of the house and explore the outside. The outside:" ~ Based Hyperborean [FPX4e31WYAUGbzL] Neighborhood of horror New World Order hellscapes https://twitter.com/weserubung/status/1510386464026243072 https://www.unschooling.com/search?q=free%20range [The Story of how Buddy DEFEATED the H.O.A!!] [Malvina Reynolds - Little Boxes (Weeds Theme Song) Full Version with Lyrics] [Rush - Subdivisions] #9 on our list of…

NaturePlay

“The most endangered species in the wild today: Our Children” [NaturePlay Teaser with Richard Louv] [NaturePlay - Take Childhood Back Trailer] https://www.natureplayfilm.com/

Nature Play

“Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.” ~ Luther Burbank “Childhood is that state which ends the moment a puddl…

Richard Louv Quotes

“A generation of children is not only being raised indoors, but is being confined to even smaller spaces. Jane Clark, a University of Maryland professor of kinesiology . . . calls them “containerized kids”–they spend more and more time in car seats, high chairs, and even baby seats for watching TV. When small children go outside, they’re often placed in containers–strollers–and pushed by walking or jogging parents. . . Most kid-containerizing is done for safety concerns, but the long term h…

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder

“A generation of children is not only being raised indoors, but is being confined to even smaller spaces. Jane Clark, a University of Maryland professor of kinesiology . . . calls them “containerized kids”–they spend more and more time in car seats, high chairs, and even baby seats for watching TV. When small children go outside, they’re often placed in containers–strollers–and pushed by walking or jogging parents. . . Most kid-containerizing is done for safety concerns, but the long term healt…

Agrarian Based Economy VS Tech-Based Economy

As our society becomes more technology based with people living in the Metaverse and completely disconnected from reality with video games, artificial intelligence, and smart devices and children are being sucked into artificial realities like never before. This is motivating many families to get back to nature with Homesteading which is seeing a major resurgence in popularity. These families are done with the materialistic consumerism culture and want to rekindle what really matters in this wor…

The American Dream Is a Facade

“It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it” ~ George Carlin “No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.” ~ Maya Mendoza TOP COMMENTS: “A huge part of chasing the “American Dream” is remaining on top of the “financial treadmill of life”. You have to keep running on that “treadmill” in order to pay for everything. I’m 62, owned a couple homes, drove nice cars,…and for decades I had to ke…

Success Mentor Speaks The Absolute Truth About The American Dream

[ - YouTube] While I can’t vouch for his University, it seems to offer many great courses and based on his videos, he speaks a lot of truth. For anyone interested, it may be worthwhile to check out his free courses, he seems to be a better influence than any teacher at a school with a muzzle on, afraid to speak truth because they will be fired.

Children's Lives Matter

Dr. Stacey Patton sums this up perfectly: “Generations of scholars and activists have examined race, gender, class and sexuality as categories of oppression. They have not extended the same courtesy to the category of childhood, to the oppressions and sufferings of children. But the fact is you can’t reproduce any order of societal oppression based on race, gender, class or sexuality without first destroying each generation of young people as soon as they enter the world.” ~ Dr. Stacey Patton …

Childhood

“Schools [are] … institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.” ~ John Taylor Gatto “My clients spend their childhoods and in particular their adolescences putting their healthy development on hold, coached and managed by parents who are so fearful and anxious about helping their children succeed that there is simply no room for their children, my clients, to begin to know themselves.” ~ Kate Fagan [What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen] …

Traumatized Society

The current generation of children is beyond traumatized, another Lost Generation, spending their whole childhoods living in fear and surrounded by fear mongers. They will be traumatized for life. Sadly, they call this education these days! Psychologists will have a lot of future clients. “Adverse childhood experiences are the single greatest unaddressed public health threat facing our nation today.” ~ Dr Robert Block, [former President of the American Academy of Pediatrics] “The hardest th…

"Our Society Is Run By Insane People" | John Lennon

“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends. I think they’re all insane. But I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.” ~ John Lennon And then he was killed! RIP [John Lennon "our society is run by insane people"] “The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.” ~ John Lennon “When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the oppos…