Today China’s president Xi Jinping said “Chinese children do not play enough. They should play more.”
Tag: hyperparenting
Behind the scenes
Check out the Making Of video for my upcoming TV show on ABC 1 in Australia. (Password: 360admin)
Leave them kids alone!
Children today need what children have always needed: to play freely without adults getting in the way.
Leave those kids alone….
Head teacher at top London girls’ school rails against SNOWPLOUGH parenting.
IKEA hails Slow Family Life
This ad from IKEA skewers the folly of turning family life into a high-speed treadmill of busyness…
Slow learners?
A welcome corrective to the conventional wisdom that the only path to success is early academic superstardom.
Boredom rocks!
Boredom smacks of failure in our culture of distraction + diversion. But it can also spur creative thinking + a fresh exploration of the world + the self. For kids and adults.
The Slow Fix and Parenting
A Skype interview I gave from my kitchen. The subject: The Slow Fix and what it means for parenting.
Power of play
Scott Harper, a Canadian filmmaker, made a wonderful documentary called Lost Adventures of Childhood. It’s about what’s going wrong and right with childrearing today.
I have posted a few short clips from the film. In this one, I talk about the power of play not only to shape children but to build a better society.
Kids need to take risks
Scott Harper, a Canadian filmmaker, made a wonderful documentary called Lost Adventures of Childhood. It’s about what’s going wrong and right with childrearing today.
I have posted a few short clips from the film. In this one, the editor of Psychology Today and I talk about the benefits of letting kids learn to take risks and navigate the outside world on their own.