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.

Chasing Childhood

In today’s world, free play in childhood has disappeared, giving way to unprecedented anxiety and depression. How can we give our kids the freedom to become their true selves?

Filmmaker Q+A on Jan 12, 8PM

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The Carole Zabar Center for Film presents previews and special engagements of films on topics that are relevant and important to our community. These include movies on subjects such as social justice, history, current and political happenings, and other matters of interest to Jewish and NYC viewers.

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