Innovation Hub: 'Reinventing Childhood'
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"Reinventing Childhood" takes a look at how childhood in America is changing.
Can kids focus on serious stuff anymore, and are there too many helicopter parents? How does technology influence how kids spend their time and how they learn?
Innovation Hub is hosted by Kara Miller, from WGBH and PRI.
Guests: Paula Fass, author of the new book, "The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child," Eric Weiner, author of "The Geography of Genius," and Ian Bremmer of Eurasia Group, author of "Superpower."
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