ABSTRACT
CHILDREN’S GROUPS Children up through adolescence learn the uses of folklife by participating in groups, sometimes of their own making and sometimes created for them by adults. It is in their folk groups that children acquire and practice their future adult competence in performing and understanding folk traditions. At any moment in time, a child might be a member of two or more folk groups; as the child grows and develops, she or he usually joins and leaves a succession of folk groups.
