{"id":38277,"date":"2017-04-26T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38277"},"modified":"2017-04-25T15:04:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T19:04:39","slug":"the-end-of-play-why-kids-need-unstructured-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/04\/26\/the-end-of-play-why-kids-need-unstructured-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of Play: Why Kids Need Unstructured Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zB5_KAOjboc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 25 Apr 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;School has become an abnormal setting for children,&#8221; says Peter Gray, a professor of psychology at Boston College. &#8220;Instead of admitting that, we say the children are abnormal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boston College Psychology Professor Peter Gray says that a cultural shift towards a more interventionist approach to child rearing is having dire consequences for the well-being of kids. &#8220;Over the same period of time that there has been a gradual decline in play,&#8221; he told <em>Reason<\/em>&#8216;s Nick Gillespie, &#8220;there are well documented, gradual, but ultimately huge increases in a variety of mental disorders in childhood \u2014 especially depression and anxiety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gray believes that social media is one saving grace. &#8220;[Kids] can&#8217;t get together in the real world&#8230;[without] adult supervisors,&#8221; he says, &#8220;but they can online.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more on Gray&#8217;s work, follow his blog at <em>Psychology Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Edited by Mark McDaniel. Cameras by Todd Krainin and Jim Epstein. Music by Broke for Free.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 25 Apr 2017 &#8220;School has become an abnormal setting for children,&#8221; says Peter Gray, a professor of psychology at Boston College. &#8220;Instead of admitting that, we say the children are abnormal.&#8221; Boston College Psychology Professor Peter Gray says that a cultural shift towards a more interventionist approach to child rearing is having dire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,66,10],"tags":[374,141,906,139],"class_list":["post-38277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-health-science","category-liberty","tag-children","tag-depression","tag-mentalhealth","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Xn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38278,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38277\/revisions\/38278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}