Browsing: Education

Mar 6, 2015 Darcia Narvaez, PhD

Industrial Vs Primal Intelligence: What We Are Missing

Our nomadic cousins have more receptive smarts... Through the descriptive, observational works of others, I’ve been studying small-band hunter-gatherer societies and other…

Education

Feb 12, 2015 Karen Brody

Why I Laughed When My Son Flunked His Midterm

I’m tired. Tired of seeing how so many parents in our culture mess their kids up in two words: unhealthy expectations. I’ve…

Education

Jan 30, 2015 Peter Gray, PhD

Spread The Word: Feb 4 Is Global School Play Day

Children are designed, by nature, to spend huge amounts of time playing freely. That's how they develop social, emotional, and physical skills,…

Education

Nov 22, 2014 Peter Gray, PhD

Malala’s Nobel Prize And The Question Of Children’s Rights

Photo: Google Images Labeled for Reuse Listen to Peter Gray, PhD, discuss his book, Free To Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to…

Education

Jun 12, 2014 Kevin Sabourin

School Shootings And Community Healing: The Story of the Ferncliff Labyrinth

Editor's Note: This week there was, yet again, another school shooting, the 74th since Sandy Hook Elementary School.  (You can see…

Education

Jan 8, 2014 Darcia Narvaez, PhD

Baby Flashcards? Babies Learn Best From Responsive Social Experience

Clever experiments are demonstrating how babies and young children are more intelligent than many previously thought. For example, they pick the nice instead of the…

Education

Aug 28, 2013 Peter Gray, PhD

Are Schools Prisons? Is “Dangerous” Play the Key to Education Reform? An Interview with Evolutionary Psychologist, Peter Gray

Listen to Kindred's editor, Lisa Reagan, talk with Peter Gray, PhD, about the revolutionary insights in his new book, Free to Learn:…

Education

Feb 23, 2013 Peter Gray, PhD

As Children’s Freedom Has Declined, So Has Their Creativity, New Study Shows

Source: Psychology Today If anything makes Americans stand tall internationally it is creativity.  “American ingenuity” is admired everywhere. We are not the richest country…

Education

Feb 11, 2013 Dayna Martin

Forced vs. Natural Milestones

As parents, we hear what “experts” claim to be average ages that children meet milestones in our culture. We then tend to…

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