Why You Should Spend Less Time with Your Kids. That’s the title of my TED Talk that just came out — and here it is! It went up yesterday and has 197,000 views today. THANK YOU, TED!!! In the talk, I try to explain the terrible lie that has been driving kids and parents crazy| Free-Range Kids
Kids aren't addicted to screens—they're starved for freedom. A new poll shows they crave real-life play. Here's how we can give it back to them.| Let Grow
Are kids on their phones all the time because that’s what they love the most? An explosive new Harris Poll finds that actually, what kids 8-12 REALLY want to do is hang out together in real life – with no adults hovering, and no screens. They go online because that’s the only place they can| Free-Range Kids
Let Grow is the nonprofit working to give kids independence and free play.| Let Grow
It's easier to create “play-based childhoods” if we can simultaneously create vibrant “community-based childhoods” to support them.| www.afterbabel.com
Kids and teens need to put down their phones and get out in the real word for independence, interaction, and play.| Let Grow
What social changes gave us “helicopter parenting” and, now, even more “intensive parenting”? This New York Times podcast from a few weeks ago, inspired by the Surgeon General’s report on parental burnout, explains all. Michael Barbaro, host of “The Daily,” interviews Claire Cain Miller, the Times reporter covering family issues (and the mom of kids 8 and 12). Cain Miller| Free-Range Kids
When students get the assignment, "Go home and do something new, on your own," parents let go and off the kids go: Doing, thinking, problem-solving -- growing. Students return to the classroom more confident, curious, engaged. The ignition is turned on!| Let Grow
Allowing more unsupervised free play is among the most powerful and least expensive ways to bring down rates of mental illness| www.afterbabel.com
We want to help you develop independent students in your classrooms, schools, and communities. Get free resources from Let Grow.| Let Grow
How can we bring real play into children’s lives in today’s child-unfriendly world?| petergray.substack.com