Jennifer Senior Quotes

THE SENTIMENTALIZATION OF CHILDHOOD Has Produced A Great Many Paradoxes. The Most Curious, However, May Be That Children Have Acquired More And More Stuff The More Useless They Have Become. Until The Late Nineteenth Century, When Kids Were Still Making Vital Contributions To The Family Economy, They Didn't Have Toys As We Know Them. They Played With Found And Household Objects (sticks, Pots, Brooms). In His Book Children At Play, The Scholar Howard Chudacoff Writes, Some Historians Even Maintain That Before The Modern Era, The Most Common Form Of Children's Play Occurred Not With Toys But With Other Children - Siblings, Cousins, And Peers.

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