Present Day Plagues Damaging Girls, Part 1

<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><u><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Show Notes:</span></u></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The following 3 issues are current plagues that are damaging girls: good girl conditioning, the lack of down time and unstructured play, and early specialization in sports and activities.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dr. Jordan describes how girls experience unhealthy <strong>good girl conditioning</strong>. He describes lists of qualities of good girls, bad girls, and real girls derived from discussions at his retreats and camps.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Also discussed are the detrimental and confusing mixed messages girls receive due to the good girl habituation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This podcast discusses the effect of several intensification movements in education that amped up academic pressures on kids to their detriment. This caused a decrease in the amount of down time kids experience today. He also discusses the <strong>negative effects of reduced recess</strong> that afflicts most kids today as well as the benefits of real, unstructured, unsupervised, kid-directed play.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The third plague discussed is the early specialization in sports and music and other activities experienced by girls today. Go back and relisten to his previous podcast on the damage youth sports does to kids in this link:</span> <a href= "https://drtimjordan.com/2023/01/youth-sports-daughters-parents-ncaa-athletes/"> <strong><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Take back the game podcast 1-19-23</span></strong></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-heig