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PageS- HERALD THE WEEKEND OUTLOOK Jane Religion Dont overbook your childs summer By JIM RYAN Thirteenth Sunday inordinary Time Mark 52143 June Its summertime but the living aint easy for the hurried child Were not talking about the so- called spoiled child or the and who was encouraged to live as if the summer never end ed were talking about the child who is encouraged to fill the sum mer with activities and lessons that can be added to his or her curriculum vitae TWO KINDS OF SUMMER TIME 1 Empty Time Must be filled with adultapproved lessons courses and summer camps Time is structured No different from the school year lessons are learned tests are taken and students pass or fail succeed or not 2 Freed Time Not the same as free time Adults may have free time Children can only have freed time This is when children are overlooked by the adults in their lives When overlooked they are freed from all of the structured times that adults im pose on them Freed time may be boring or magical but it is the time that is necessary tor children to become human be ings according to Iona and Peter Opie or to become religious be ings according to David Heller Freed time may result in ac tivities songs games or fan tasies that arent adult- approved ThesQ activities arent intended for adult eyes or ears They are the secret and private curriculum that children engage in and according to the what chidlren learn from each other is more real more im mediately serviceable and more INCREDIBLE SAVINGS ON BRAND NAME FURNISHINGS AT WHOLESALE PRICES Ontario Chesterfield Wholesalers Behind Guelph Auto Mall Guelph Religion and Reality by Jim Ryan vastly entertaining to them than anything which they learn from adults They may even discover God TWO IDEAS OF CHILDHOOD The Child as Miniature Adult This child is ignored no special allowances are made for him or her She is swept along in life with else wears castoffs and plays and works alongside adults 2 The Child as Center of the Universe This child is coddled and cared for Special allowances abound The focus of the family is the childs development and suc cess All of the parents hopes rest on her We seem to have combined both of the ideas of childhood in our day On the one hand as David Elkind writes we dress our children in miniature adult costumes often with designer labels we expose them to gratuitous sex and violence and we expect them to cope with an increasingly bewildering social environment On the other hand we sign them up for child- designed programmes intended to enhance their development and successful entry into adult life The June issue of Harpers has two interesting pieces on children and childhood The first by Tom Englehart Reading May Be Harmful To Your Kids com plains about the state of childrens book publishing He writes that childrens books have become a consumer product teaching children to become con sumers He concludes childrens book publishing on ly creates more adults scripting adventures limit what choices children are likely to make in the privacy of their imaginations The sad dest thing about this phenomenon is simply that children buying these books have no way of knowing that they are being shortchanged by grownups for where children are deepest least reachable most unnerving is ex actly where this world of books is becoming shallower more ob vious more expectable and yet in weighing more heavily on the young The second piece is a short story by Charis W Conn entitled Octopus The story is one of self- discovery A young girl of ten goes to a summer fair with her younger brother and a girl friend and learns something about life What she learns is dark and mysterious Interestingly enough what enables her learning is parents who leave her alone On the way to the fair they pass the religious school that her friend Miriam attends The school makes her friend wholesome and pleasant She prefers Miriam when she is wonderfully warped and resourceful and essentially naughty The message 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