Even children’s social lives and explorations are heavily controlled and scheduled, all in the service of shaping children. Children continue to fit their own autonomous explorations into the cracks, but parents don’t help. And for children who are not middle-class, the disappearance of the public spaces is even more damaging. Instead of having a safe, stable world to explore, and peer groups to experiment with, rich children live in a world of schooling and control, and poor children
