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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Oct 14, 2008
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Mike Males is a sociologist and author whose writing has deeply influenced a lot of radical, committed youth workers, myself included. As my own analysis has opened up I've continued reading Males, primarily because he keeps digging further into the psyche of adultism in America today. His...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Oct 1, 2008
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Spanking, slapping, smacking, pulling ears, pinching, shaking... Hitting with rulers, belts, wooden spoons, extension cords, slippers, hairbrushes, pins, sticks, whips, rubber hoses, flyswatters, wire hangers, stones, bats, canes, or paddles... Being forced to stand for a long period; hold...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Sep 29, 2008
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I don't like to speak to pop culture too often, but every now and then I turn on CNN.com in the morning for background noise. In the following video from CNN.com rapper Bow Wow, age 21, is promoting young people voting and the significance of these elections to young people today. My beef is that...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Sep 2, 2008
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"We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Aug 19, 2008
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This is post 2 of 5 exploring popular perceptions of young people today. Marketers have spent more than a half century trying to convince consumers to buy the image of youth being a perfect time, filled with frivolity and carelessness. Literature portrays an idyllic time of life that is airy,...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Jul 6, 2008
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I'm beginning to bring together the vast amounts of reading I've done over the last 10 years, combine them with my experience, and make some sense of it all. I'm excited! Some poor soul on Wikipedia just wrote to me to ask why the histories of children's rights in the United States and the...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Jun 29, 2008
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"Our schools look like shopping malls." "My school looks like a prison." "People at shopping malls follow me around like I'm stealing things." "The army wants me to join them and then go to college." "The army wants to send you to die in Iraq." "For 100 years!" "The curfew in my town is 10pm...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: May 5, 2008
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I have recently made the acquaintance of an executive director for a nonprofit in Pennsylvania. We have carried on a dialog over the last several weeks that has been really neat, and I want to share with you another thought I just wrote to her. The other day she asked, "How do you show folks...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Apr 27, 2008
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Think about it: First thing in the morning mom's saying, "In MY house you will follow MY rules," enforcing your sense of displacement in the world. On the way to school on the subway you glimpse at the headline of a magazine that says, "Look 20 years younger!" with a newspaper headline on the...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Apr 13, 2008
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There is no such thing as a "free child." This myth has been carefully spread over the last forty years by authors and speakers and all kinds of people that I have admired for a lot of reasons - but not this one. The ideal of the "free child" seems to be the ultimately anarchistic young person,...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Apr 5, 2008
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In 2000 I was working as the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction 's Youth Ambassador position where I was responsible for coordinating the statewide essay contest for K-12 students focused on the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I also met Sasha...... [view]
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