每当看到电视节目里,几岁大小的孩子唱流行歌曲、跳迈克尔·杰克逊的机械舞、流畅地背诵我都没有听过的唐诗时,我就在想,现在的孩子还有童年吗?美国文化学者尼尔·波兹曼的著作《童年的消逝》,专门探讨了这个问题。他提出,当儿童与成人的界限变得模糊不清时,就意味着童年不在了,或者叫“成人化的童年”。幸运的是,我们这一代人还是有童年的,但是它已经被埋藏在记忆深处了,唯有在两种情况下会被大面积唤醒:一是儿童节这一天;二是看到电影中的儿童故事时。 Whenever I see a TV show, a teenager sings a pop song, a mechanical dance that jumps Michael Jackson, or a memorized Tang poem that I have never heard before, I wonder if children now have childhood. American culture scholar Neil Bozeman’s book “The Era of Childhood,” specifically explored this issue. He suggested that when the boundaries between children and adults become blurred, it means that childhood is gone, or “adult childhood.” Fortunately, our generation still has childhood, but it has been buried in the depths of memory, only in two cases will be awakened to a large area: one is the day of Children’s Day; the second is to see the movie Children’s story.