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Part of the natural process of growing up is to look ahead, at those who are further along but not so far along as to be out of reach. Five-year-olds aren’t particularly interested in emulating adults, who are too much in a different world. But five-year-olds do very much want to be like the cool eight- and nine-year-olds they see around them. If those eight- and nine-year-olds are reading and discussing books, or playing computer games, or climbing trees, or collecting Magic the Gathering cards, then the five-year-olds want to do that, too. Similarly, eight- and nine-year-olds look to young teens as models; young teens look to older teens; and older teens look to adults. This all occurs naturally in an age-mixed environment…

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Peter Gray

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