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Chasing Childhood (2021)
Directed by Eden Wurmfeld, Margaret Munzer Loeb
“All work and no play is no way for kids to grow up.”
Documentary · 1h 18m
In today's highly charged world of structure, stranger danger, and helicopter parenting, free play in childhood has disappeared, giving way to unprecedented anxiety and depression. This phenomenon impacts kids from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds. Children's lives are consumed with wall-to-wall activities and constant monitoring-the overprotected, over-directed, over-pressured childhood is the new normal. This film takes us to schools in affluent Wilton, CT; working class Patchogue, NY; and metropolitan Manhattan. Throughout these different stories, a central question emerges: How can we eschew harmful parenting strategies and empower our kids to become their most fully realized, authentic selves? The film offers possible solutions as journalist Lenore Skenazy, evolutionary psychologist Peter Gray, former dean of freshmen at Stanford University Julie Lythcott-Haims, and leaders of the "free play" movement fight to restore a less curated childhood.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Eden Wurmfeld, Margaret Munzer Loeb
- Director of Photography
- Justin Schein
- Original Music Composer
- David Cieri
- Editor
- Mary Ann Toman
- Producer
- Lisa Eisenpresser, Eden Wurmfeld
Details
- Release date
- 2021-06-25
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- MML Productions