Such a cool article, playground and interesting stats (especially the part about how crime isnt actually any worse, were just way more paranoid). I feel like I had plenty freedom as a child to roam free, play night games, walk to school, climb dangerously high trees, and get into all kinds of adventurous mischief - Which is how I imagine a childhood should be. Failure to supervise has become, in fact, synonymous with failure to parent. The result is a continuous and ultimately dramatic decline in children’s opportunities to play and explore in their own chosen ways, writes Peter Gray, a psychologist at Boston College and the author of Free to Learn.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 20:23:33 +0000
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