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It was discussed as a book that supports the free-range parenting approach, suggesting that children's education historically and naturally involves unstructured play with peers.
There's another guy named Peter Gray. He's a developmental psychologist, he has a book called 'Free to Learn' and founded a non-profit I believe with uh, yeah, Scanzoni called 'Let Grow'.
— Episode: How Free Range Parenting Works
Episode: How Free Range Parenting Works
It was discussed as a book that supports the free-range parenting approach, suggesting that children's education historically and naturally involves unstructured play with peers.
There's another guy named Peter Gray. He's a developmental psychologist, he has a book called 'Free to Learn' and founded a non-profit I believe with uh, yeah, Scanzoni called 'Let Grow'.
He basically says that you know if you look back through human evolution children, but their education was through play with their peers.
Episode: How Free Range Parenting Works
It was discussed as a book that promotes the idea that children's education was historically and naturally through play with their peers, contrasting with modern over-scheduling.
He has a book called 'Free to Learn' and founded a nonprofit I believe with uh, yeah, Scanaszi called 'Let Grow'. Little play on words there.
He basically says that you know if you look back through human evolution Children But Their education was through play with their peers.
And if you look at um societies and cultures in the world today that um I mean, how would you classify these cultures? Uh traditional societies?
Maybe but they say that that children of these cultures that still play and explore freely Um, if they're left to do that they will do so into their teen years
Um like that is their natural instinct is to be among their peers Free playing right and so like I think one of the problems that helicopter parents have with the idea of play is that like it's It's a waste of time the kid could be learning like cello or um, you know doing math flash cards are Like creating a better foundation for a better future for themselves And that if they're not doing that they're falling behind And so what Peter Gray and some of his ilk are saying is like no no no play Helps develop a child in ways that no other Thing you could possibly come up with their supervisor get them to do can Because this is what we've done all this time And this is how we built society is letting little kids play and figure things out on their own
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Peter Gray, a developmental psychologist, was noted as having written *Free to Learn*, a book that supports the idea that unsupervised play is essential for children's development.
There's another guy named Peter Gray. He's a developmental psychologist. He has a book called Free to Learn and founded a nonprofit, I believe, with, yeah, Skenezi called Let Grow.
