Posted on 12/20/2023 4:03:23 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
Almost a century ago, the psychologist Jean Piaget defined the stages of cognitive development. Up until about age 2, children learn about cause and effect through their actions. For the next five years, they learn through pretend play but struggle with logic. By middle school, they're in the "concrete operational stage." Their thinking is more logical but still rigid. Then around age 12, children enter the "formal operational stage," becoming capable of theoretical and abstract reasoning. This progression isn't just about acquiring knowledge; it's about a change in the very nature of how we think.
Madeline Levine, a psychologist and expert in child development, says today's adolescents aren't making it all the way: "We're turning out kids who don't think in complex ways."
"Some of what I see," she adds, "is even pre-operational thinking. It's I can only see it from my point of view. This egocentrism starts to go away in concrete operational thinking."
What's interesting, she notes, is that high school students do demonstrate abstract thinking in specific situations — they can do calculus and physics, after all. "But within the cultural bubble, they're still stuck at the earlier stages. It's a developmental issue that isn't just about, ‘How are kids going to learn?' but ‘How are they going to face life?'"
In other words, we're growing older, but we're not growing up.
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I’ve noticed a high percentage of severe narcissism in Gen Z co-workers.
Managed to get one of the newly employed one fired. She was nuts!
We’ve screwed up everything. It will certainly take decades to fix this mess. And if it takes well over 100 years, I wouldn’t be surprised. But I’ll be dead, so there is that.
I never grew up, I just learned how to act around adults.
^ This right here. ^
I blame the parents as well. In broken homes, mom and dad compete in a race to the bottom to see who can be the house with the least amount of rules; where Junior has zero chores, responsibility, accountability, consequences and 100% authority as an adult confidant (a horrid form of child abuse, actually).
Most of them aren’t White.
I would blame it more on the parents’ warehousing of children to the care of strangers, starting in infancy, instead of staying home to take care of them themselves.
Except now, there are practically NO adults, and that's a problem.
Too many parents have let their kids be raised by social media.
Ever notice at a table next to you at a restaurant that has a family that’s spend their whole time on their phones!
Right. Again that would come under parents having no rules for their kids aka unlimited screen time.
“Most of them aren’t White.”
That’s not what I’m seeing AT ALL.
All on purpose. They don’t want non-elites questioning the way things “work”.
I have watched this since the 1960s when I started my family. I sensed that the feminist movement was going to have some very serious negative consequences on children.
Certainly not all, but a good majority of them are harmed by constantly changing caregivers, overcrowded day care facilities, and a lack of parental guidance, structure, discipline, and time spent listening, discussing, following through, and teaching responsibility.
We are reaping the consequences, and these are destroying our morals, our values, our legal system, our institutions, and our nation.
Agree
Absolutely……that was my fear as well……and it has come to pass!
They convinced women to leave home/ children and ……here we are!
There was/is a plan…….and we are seeing it’s fruition
I just don't know about a "formal operational stage," at 12 I and my friends were heavily into "General Interest Relationship Learning Seminars."
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“This is a very thought-provoking piece.”
The first thought it provoked in me came from the first paragraph:
“The topic was gender and how the experiences of the authors we were studying related to our world today.”
This is an English AP class, not a cultural affairs class.
“Even when teenagers want an open dialogue, they don’t agree “
By definition, an open dialog is one with non-agreed-upon ideas.
“During lunch at school recently, someone brought up transgender females ...”
Ouch! Obviously this sort of thing is what the author likes to talk about and have her students talk about.
Oh well. Mother Theresa said that wisdom is acquired through suffering.
So true.
I've posted on what I see as a tragedy--families eating out, at the same table, each on their own cell phone--several times. They'd rather interact with anonymous electrons than real people. Ugh.
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