Time on Their Hands: A Report on Leisure, Recreation, and Young People (Children and Youth Series, Vol 11) - Hardcover

9780405059933: Time on Their Hands: A Report on Leisure, Recreation, and Young People (Children and Youth Series, Vol 11)
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We hear it said often these days that American youth are "soft" and must be "toughened." Frequently this charge simmers down to the assertion that our young people are content for the most part to sit on the sidelines, enjoying by proxy the exertions of others. Though many such statements are made with more vehemence than discrimination, their very recurrence has caused thoughtful persons to reassess youth attitudes and the opportunities (or lack of opportunities) from which in large measure they stem. Particularly is this true of the use of leisure time.

Whatever may be said of youth attitudes, the use of leisure in modern days has taken on great significance because the amount of time which must be devoted to earning a living is constantly decreasing. Young people are particularly aware of this fact because they enter the world of work much later in life than did their grandfathers and grandmothers, or even their mothers and fathers. When they do succeed in making an entry, they are likely to find themselves performing over and over a simple task which gives them little personal sense of achievement and makes satisfactory use of leisure a necessity.

In a period of national emergency like the present, the use of leisure by youth is of special importance to our country. The American Youth Commission has frequently pointed out that only as youth feel they have a stake in our democracy will they be eager to defend it. They can hardly be expected to respond with enthusiasm to demands for special effort in creating and maintaining our defenses if no attention is given to their own pressing needs, one of which is healthful recreation. Furthermore, from the viewpoint of conserving our resources, failure to provide facilities for developing the highest potentialities of all our future citizens may prove a costly error.

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  • PublisherAyer Co Pub
  • ISBN 10 0405059930
  • ISBN 13 9780405059933
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages266

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