watching children play: toward the earth in bliss

Watching children at play is favorite pastime for many elderlies. However, the growing safety concerns have prompted parents to become increasingly resistant idea of having strangers watch their in parks and playgrounds. This creates an intergenerational gap communication with potentially detrimental consequences all social groups. Oral interviews were conducted written surveys distributed that validated hesitance seniors, especially United States, spend time children’s playgrounds despite finding vicinity stimulating. Behavioral observations quantify positive negative effects supervisors’ ages on thus indirectly assess whether there can be mutual benefits making presence older people playgrounds, which customary countries, more culturally acceptable. Observations focused behavior a pair siblings showed increased probability both conflicts joyful expressions when middle-aged person than they watched over by has suggested freer stimulated parent-like figures simultaneously induce undesired desired behavioral patterns form propensities conflict joy, respectively. confirmed observational stance critical effect outcome age watchers play, correlating directly calmness but also lower degree exhilaration.