1KHO 52: The Loss of Middle Childhood (ages 6 - 12) I Dr. Susan Linn, Author, Psychologist, & Award-Winning Ventriloquist | The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast - S3 E26

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Susan Linn is an author, psychologist, and award-winning ventriloquist (so fun!) and she has changed the world with her two books, Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood and The Case for Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World. You may have seen her in some episodes of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood growing up! We dive into so many pertinent topics in this episode including: *The loss of middle childhood (age 6 - 12) and why it matters *KAGOY (Kids are growing older younger) *Kids learn how to learn through play and it improves the executive function of their brain *How corporations exploit kid's vulnerabiltiies And so much more!! Dr. Linn has a new book releasing this September called "Who's Raising the Kids? Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children." She has so much to offer parents and caregivers. You're going to get a lot out of this one! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Jenny Erich. I am the founder of
0:06.4	1,000 hours outside and so thrilled today to be here with Susan Lynn.
0:10.9	Welcome.
0:11.9	I'm so happy to be here and a thousand hours outside sounds just fantastic.
0:18.0	It is a lovely way to live life.
0:21.0	So Susan, I found you through your book consuming kids and we're going to be
0:25.8	talking about the case for make-believe today but consuming kids is just such a
0:30.0	fabulous book and so I Susan I told my husband his name is Josh I said I
0:35.4	would love to get Susan on our podcast you know so he looked you up and he said
0:39.6	there's a there's a picture of her holding a puppet. He said is this her? I said that's her
0:47.0	That's her and then we you know we've communicated and and landed on and doing this podcast surrounding your book The Case for Make Believe,
0:54.6	which I've also read recently saving play in a commercialized world.
0:58.9	Just both, both fantastic eye opening, very eye-opening books. So thank you for what you've written and you
1:06.7	also have a new book coming out later this year as well, right?
1:10.7	I do. On September 13thth the new press is publishing who's raising the kids big
1:18.8	tech big business and the lives of children I'm so excited to read that one that's really not that far away.
1:25.2	No. So thank you for these amazing just books filled with information for parents.
1:31.8	Can I tell I'll tell a little bit about you.
1:33.7	You're an author.
1:35.0	There's so much here, actually.
1:36.5	I'm gonna paraphrase.
1:37.6	People know that there's way more than this.
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