Blog. 15

According to the passage “Play Time is Over” by David Elkind, many schools have eliminated recces in favor of more time for classes. He also states that schools are hiring recess coaches to guide the students free time. The consequences of these changes are that children don’t have enough free time to play and because of this the “culture of childhood” is disappearing. The passage states that the culture of childhood is the process where children learn how to interact with each other, learn what is good and bad in their own world.

Also the adaptation to these new childhood life is going to be hard for us as adults, we don’t know what is going on out there in the minds of the new young generation. I think a leader, meaning a coach will be good influence for the children. Is always good to know that there’s somebody teaching and showing the children good ways to survive and to be a better person.

I remember when I as a kid I had a free time similar to recces but in my country we used to call it “Recreational Time” sometimes we had a coach and I think when you have somebody guiding you, you become more efficient, because you are focus and you always want to win any game or any competition given by the coach, it becomes challenging. You always want the best of you and you will get it if you have someone to push you in the right direction.

When we didn’t have a coach the situation was totally different, when you are a kid and you have a lot of same age students around you many things can happen. For example, I remember one occasion when we were plying ide and sick without any supervision, the place was huge and one of my friends got lost, we were looking for hours until we decided to call his parents. They called the cops and they found him 2 miles away from us in a stranger neighborhood, it was really scary and one of the worst days only because we didn’t have an adult guiding us.

The article also states that studies have found that children who are most physically fit, tend to do good on school and I totally agreed with it , I think is very important to exercise your body and your mind in order to have a healthy and successful life