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

The Real User Interface: Recovering Our Neighborhoods
Although the technological forces driving us apart are powerful, the forces needed to hold us together are right in front of us.
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Seth Kaplan
43
The Joy of Missing Out: Lessons from a Church-Wide Digital Detox
How Churches can help roll back the phone-based life
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Darren Whitehead
34
Four Lessons for Raising Resilient Children in the Digital Age
What secular families can learn from faith-based communities
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Seth Kaplan
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Caroline Bryk
32
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
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Lenore Skenazy
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Jon Haidt
61
The Upstream Cause of the Youth Mental Health Crisis is the Loss of Community
We've forgotten what community really means.
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Seth Kaplan
86
How Phones Are Making Parents the Anxious Generation
Smartphones are trust blockers for parents
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Lenore Skenazy
119
Treating Childhood Anxiety with a Mega-Dose of Independence
What therapists can do to help restore the play-based childhood
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Camilo Ortiz
49
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.
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Seth Kaplan
48
The Great Deterioration of Local Community Was A Major Driver of The Loss of The Play-Based Childhood
Kids growing up in close-knit communities where the social ties are thick are more protected from the harms of the phone-based childhood.
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Zach Rausch
91
Why Kids Need Summer Camp
A 160-year-old solution to a modern mental health crisis
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Steve Baskin
43
Why Children Need Risk, Fear, and Excitement in Play
And why adults’ fears put them at risk
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Mariana Brussoni
106
Good News For Anxious Kids (And Parents)
A simple homework project can make your child more ready to face the world.
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Lenore Skenazy
27
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