In a world of social media, curated personas, and text-based communication, face-to-face social skills are becoming a lost art. Summer camp forces a digital detox, usually quite literally, as most camps ban smartphones.
At a traditional , the star quarterback and the chess champion sleep in adjacent bunks. They do dishes together. They fail at canoeing together. This proximity fosters what sociologists call "cross-group friendships."
Modern childhood is increasingly defined by boundaries. Boundaries of the classroom, boundaries of the suburban backyard, and increasingly, the invisible boundaries of the internet. Today's children are often described as the "Indoor Generation," spending less time in nature than any previous generation.
In a world of social media, curated personas, and text-based communication, face-to-face social skills are becoming a lost art. Summer camp forces a digital detox, usually quite literally, as most camps ban smartphones.
At a traditional , the star quarterback and the chess champion sleep in adjacent bunks. They do dishes together. They fail at canoeing together. This proximity fosters what sociologists call "cross-group friendships."
Modern childhood is increasingly defined by boundaries. Boundaries of the classroom, boundaries of the suburban backyard, and increasingly, the invisible boundaries of the internet. Today's children are often described as the "Indoor Generation," spending less time in nature than any previous generation.
