I heard this commentary by NPR's Peter Sagal a few days ago. I love how he is asking questions about what it means that our children are spending more time with electronic computer relationships than with people. (In his funny style- Wait Wait is one of my favorite shows!)
Childhood is all about practicing skills we use as adults. It is so true that real people are more difficult to handle than imaginary people. Our children need time to be together with other children and adults to share joys and sorrows, make mistakes and learn from them, to figure out what make their hearts sing.
We do this in our time at Channing- or around the dinner table or in a musical group, we do this whenever we spend consistent time together invested in our relationships and building community.
We make sure our children practice their musical instruments or math times tables, but do we insist that they practice the art of community?
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