More broadly, how do children’s culture get taught and spread from age group to age group, and why do they persist long after the children themselves become adults and have long forgotten them? Seems like no matter how many decades have passed, children still know Patty Cake, Mama jokes, they play tag and hop scotch, they make paper airplanes. Is it really as simple as 5th graders teaching 3rd graders ad infinitum?
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Popular children’s media (books, tv) and absolutely kids learning from other kids. Parents may teach some things and teachers use some simple games as teaching methods, but it always seemed to me like I learned from other kids.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childlore – is a term used to emcompass those things that children learn and pass on, stuff like that weird ‘S’ thing we all drew.
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