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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Student Debt And Regret On The Path To Sustainable Living
On June 18th, 1999, while on a camping trip, Bob and I were hiking through Asticou Terraces on Northeast Harbor in Maine.…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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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…
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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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Leaving Home: The Journey from Birth to Emerging Adulthood, Part 8: School!
Part 8: Homeschool Vs. Public School About the Leaving Home Video Series and Book Leaving Home is a video series accompanying the…
