“This is not the computer for you”(samhenri.gold)
899 points by MBCook | 331 comments
Personal blog essay by Sam Henri Gold reflecting on growing up with Apple computers, opening with a childhood photo of himself at a desk with Macs.
#childhood on Hacker News
7 stories tagged childhood, newest first.
I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978(wordglyph.xyz)
549 points by wordglyph | 194 comments
Personal essay by Kevin Glikmann recounting how, at age 10 in 1978, he pitched an upside-down looping roller coaster idea to Disneyland.
Where do the children play?(unpublishablepapers.substack.com)
363 points by casca | 242 comments
A Substack essay by Eli Stark-Elster on Unpublishable Papers arguing children need spaces and a world free of adult supervision to play.
Playing in the Creek(hgreer.com)
328 points by c1ccccc1 | 110 comments
A LessWrong linkpost of Hastings' personal essay "Playing in the Creek," which starts from childhood memories of damming a backyard creek.
Being Raised by the Internet(jimmyhmiller.github.io)
792 points by DamonHD | 265 comments
Personal essay by Jimmy Miller about growing up poor with an absent mother and a father with schizophrenia, and how the internet helped raise him.
Deterioration of local community a major driver of loss of play-based childhood(afterbabel.com)
358 points by throwup238 | 335 comments
After Babel essay by Zach Rausch, introduced by Jon Haidt, arguing that the decline of close-knit local communities drove the loss of play-based childhood.
Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis(jonathanhaidt.substack.com)
338 points by trevin | 291 comments
An After Babel Substack essay by Jon Haidt and Peter Gray arguing that the decline of unsupervised free play is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis.