Editing Child (section)

=== Street culture ===
{{Main|Children's street culture|Children's street games}}
[[File:Boys in front of the movie theatre on Dundas Street.jpg|thumb|Children in front of a movie theatre, Toronto, 1920s.]]

Children's street culture refers to the cumulative [[culture]] created by young children and is sometimes referred to as their ''secret world''. It is most common in children between the ages of seven and twelve. It is strongest in urban [[working class]] [[industrial district]]s where children are traditionally free to play out in the streets for long periods without supervision. It is invented and largely sustained by children themselves with little adult interference.

Young children's street culture usually takes place on quiet backstreets and pavements, and along routes that venture out into local [[park]]s, [[playground]]s, scrub and wasteland, and to local shops. It often imposes imaginative status on certain sections of the urban realm (local buildings, kerbs, street objects, etc.). Children designate specific areas that serve as informal meeting and relaxation places (see: Sobel, 2001). An urban area that looks faceless or neglected to an adult may have deep '[[spirit of place]]' meanings in to children. Since the advent of indoor distractions such as [[video games]], and [[television]], concerns have been expressed about the vitality – or even the survival – of children's street culture.