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Restoring Childhood

What if the cause of the youth mental health crisis wasn’t social media at all?When was the last time you actually saw a group of kids—without adults—playing on a playground? Forty years ago, an American ten-year-old could expect to walk to school, bike to a friend’s, or play pick-up games with other kids in the neighborhood. Today, our children are supervised and controlled at every opportunity.As author, researcher, and psychology professor Peter Gray shows in Restoring Childhood, kids aren’t depressed and anxious because of social media. They’re retreating to social media in large part because they lack agency and autonomy in the real world. Social media use is instead often a symptom of the larger problem: the disappearance of childhood as a stage of life solely for experimentation, play, and learning you can do things on your own. And if we continue to tighten the leash on our kids, no amount of screen-time restriction will reverse the alarming mental health crisis we see our kids enduring today.Restoring Childhood is a radical examination of how certain societal trends—from round-the-clock news coverage, to increasing reliance on cars, to the introduction of Common Core, to growing wealth inequality—conspired to create a fundamentally anti-child environment. If we want to raise mentally healthy and resilient kids, Gray argues, we must restore childhood to children. We must, individually and collectively, prioritize adult-free play, and the time for it—in our schools, in our neighborhoods, and as parents.

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Restoring Childhood

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2. Grace , Hamman
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Plough Quarterly No. 42 - Educating Humans

Education has become too narrowly focused on academic success and future earning potential. But creative schools and individual teachers are finding ways, new and old, to reverse this trend. From kindergarten to university, writers in this issue of Plough step back to look at education as the holistic task of forming healthy, responsible, passionate humans, and share success stories from the front lines. On this theme: Alex Sosler on innovative schools where students learn a trade and study the humanities. Brit Frazier on becoming a local volunteer firefighter. Peter Gray on why free play is essential. Anthony Garces-Foley on why he chose to teach in a public school. Stephanie Ebert on reading children scary fairy tales. Patrick Tomassi on Lernvergnugenstag, when teachers get to teach what inspires them. Tim Maendel on a public high school that raises deer and fish. Phil Christmas on why everyone still needs literature. Benjamin Crosby on how Christian teaching gets passed on. Frederick K. S. Leung on why math is not merely instrumental. Also in this issue: Rabbi Meir Soloveichik on hearing God in the subway. Grace Hamman on Sister Penelope, mentor to C. S. Lewis. Paul Coleman on religious persecution in Nicaragua and Finland. Reviews of Edwidge Danticat's We're Alone, John Inazu's Learning to Disagree, and H. G. Parry's The Magician's Daughter. New poems by Claude Wilkinson. Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to apply their faith to the challenges we face. Each issue includes in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art.

1. Rudi Gesch
2. Bekah Grace
3. Dr Peter Gray

No More Monkeys Jumping On The Bed!

1. Rudi Gesch
2. Bekah Grace
3. Dr Peter Gray

No More Monkeys Jumping On The Bed!

The Great Irish Famine

The most wide-ranging series of essays ever published on the Irish famine.