One
of my childhood favorite activities was definitely playing in the snow - like making a HUGE snowman, having a snowball fight with my brother and cousins, and simply making my footsteps on the fresh, piled up snow!
Young people in the United States today, she says, are suffering because
of «school stress, the college admissions process, high - stakes testing, cutthroat competition, the emphasis on stardom rather than on enjoyment
of activities, sleep deprivation, parental pressure, the push for perfectionism, the need for escapism, the Age
of Comparison, [and] the loss
of leisure and
childhood...» Among her
favorite culprits for this state
of affairs are testing in general, the SAT in particular, the «Nation at Risk» report, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which she believes turned elementary schools and junior high schools into testing factories.