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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Signal312 26 Jun \ on: Why can't Korean children play more? Education
This whole thing - kids not knowing how to play, not doing what every single kid before about 50 years ago has done - has unfortunately been going on for a while in the US as well.
My kids grew up in a house in a "nice" neighborhood (great school district). It was a complete wasteland in terms of kids playing independently outside. It just didn't happen. Parent organized playdates, or nothing (i.e. solo screen time).
Korea may be worse, but just going outside of Korea will almost certainly not be good enough.
Also one comment on the above video, which I just watched.
He focuses a lot on kids - which is fine. But in my experience, adults can have JUST as bad a time as kids, in terms of being locked to the screen, not being able to socialize, have a conversation.
So I think his solution - have parents band together to not give a phone to kids until a certain age - is fine, but too limited. There really has got to be better, easier ways to dramatically reduce the amount of time that people are glued to screens.
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Yeah, I agree that escaping the country is not a magical solution. But at least, the social pressure to conform to one way of educating kids will be less. Gotta secure a job abroad first, though~~
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