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Copresented with The Bert and Sandra Wasserman Center for Family Life

Chasing Childhood explores a phenomenon affecting kids from a broad range of socioeconomic backgrounds. Free play and independence have all but disappeared, supplanted by relentless perfectionism and record high anxiety and depression. What’s lost goes well beyond our idyllic conceptions of childhood past. When kids don’t play unsupervised by adults, they don’t gain critical life skills: grit, independence, and resourcefulness. Though they may appear more accomplished on paper, by the time they get to college they are often falling apart, lacking the emotional tools to navigate young adulthood.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    80 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Margaret Munzer Loeb, Eden Wurmfeld
  • Producer
    Lisa Eisenpresser, Eden Wurmfeld
  • Executive Producer
    Margaret Munzer Loeb
  • Cinematographer
    Justin Schein
  • Editor
    Mary Ann Toman
  • Music
    David Cieri