Why Play Is Essential For Children: Psychologist Peter Gray Sounds the Alarm About Excessive Adult Oversight & What It’s Doing to Kids’ Mental Health

Image: Peter Gray. Interview by Kevin Mahnken. The 74 – June 4, 2024.

The Boston College professor praises unstructured playtime & challenges the conventional wisdom about screen time and youth anxiety

Kids are born to play. And when Peter Gray was young, adults made sure that’s exactly what they did. Gray grew up in the 1950s, when children were expected to spend long hours between school and dinner unsupervised. […]

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