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The Case for Independence, Free Play, and Responsibility in the Real World

Free Play and Mental Health: What We Know, What We Don’t
Introducing the Play Collaborative Review Doc
 • YeJin Park Roberts and Jon Haidt
What Kids Told Us About How to Get Them Off Their Phones
Children who were raised on screens need more freedom out in the real world.
 • Lenore Skenazy, Zach Rausch, and Jon Haidt
Let Kids Be Loud
In Defense of Outdoor Play
 • Katherine Martinko
If I Let My Kid Play Outside, They’ll Be Bullied!
What to say to other parents (or yourself!) to put bullying fears in perspective
 • Lenore Skenazy
A Norwegian Approach to Supporting Children’s Risky Play
Ellen Sandseter on the value of bumps, bruises, and building real-world confidence
 • Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter
Four Lessons for Raising Resilient Children in the Digital Age
What secular families can learn from faith-based communities
 • Seth Kaplan and Caroline Bryk
Journalist Sends Kids off on a Smartphone-Free Camping Trip – Unsupervised. Adults Quake. Kids Flourish.
The Sunday Times (UK) just ran a major story illustrating the twin prescriptions in The Anxious Generation
 • Lenore Skenazy and Jon Haidt
How Phones Are Making Parents the Anxious Generation
Smartphones are trust blockers for parents
 • Lenore Skenazy
Treating Childhood Anxiety with a Mega-Dose of Independence
What therapists can do to help restore the play-based childhood
 • Camilo Ortiz
Neighborhoods that Nurture: Why The Play-Based Childhood Requires More Than Just Putting Down the Phone
It's easier to create “play-based childhoods” if we can simultaneously create vibrant “community-based childhoods” to support them.
 • Seth Kaplan
Why Kids Need Summer Camp
A 160-year-old solution to a modern mental health crisis
 • Steve Baskin
Why Children Need Risk, Fear, and Excitement in Play
And why adults’ fears put them at risk
 • Mariana Brussoni
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