A CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY OF CHILDHOOD

A Cultural Geography of Childhood

A Cultural Geography of Childhood

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Young children seek adventure and challenges in their games outdoors. They are looking for places they can explore and spaces they can transform. However, the provision of interesting and challenging play outdoors is often restricted because of excessive attention to security issues, as well as the fact that the value of play outdoors is not very well understood. The geography of childhood include both (adult) society accepts the idea of childhood and a lot of behaviors and attitudes towards adults affects the lives of children. This includes the submission of the environment of children and the associated consequences(Twigger-Ross Uzzell 1996 pp. 205-220). This is reminiscent in some respects geographical children who are considered places and spaces in which children live. The concept of childhood is to grow and change shape as a change in lifestyle and adults to change expectations. Some believe that children should have no worries and do not have to work, life should be happy and trouble-free. Childhood, as a rule, a mixture of joy, surprise, anxiety and resistance. Typically, time playing, learning, communication, learning, and anxiety in the world, without much interference of adults, except their parents. This time, learning about responsibilities without dealing with older responsibilities.

Childhood is often seen as a retrospective time of innocence, which is usually viewed as a positive term, meaning an optimistic view of the world, and in particular one where the lack of knowledge is the lack of offense, and more knowledge from doing wrong. "Loss of Innocence" is a general concept, and is often seen as an integral part of coming of age. It is usually thought of as an experience or period in the life of the child, ...