
Modern children are not broken. They are missing the play, movement, independence, risk, responsibility, and real-world practice childhood used to provide. I’m a public school teacher helping adults restore the developmental inputs children need.
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Recently Jonathan Haidt shared my Childhood Ecosystem Audit on LinkedIn and wrote something that I’ll never forget:
“I wish I could have included this chart in The Anxious Generation.”
That meant a lot, of course. I’d be lying if I preten...
Recently, three people reached out to me from completely different directions.
They did not know each other. They were not responding to the same post. They were not using the same professional language. But all of them were circling the s...
Toy Story 5 is being treated as Pixar’s screen-time movie. I think it is really about the developmental world children lose when screens become the easiest place to find belonging, imagination, comfort, and control.
There is a particular k...
A few weeks ago, I shared The Architecture of Childhood.
I thought it might help a few parents, teachers, pediatricians, counselors, grandparents, and school leaders name something many of us have been feeling for years.
Then it started m...
A couple of years ago, during a simple math game in my elementary classroom, a child completely fell apart.
The game was not complicated. Roll two dice. Multiply the numbers. Cover the product. Try to get four in a row. Then one child's pa...
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I help adults name what modern kids are missing: play, belonging, agency, responsibility, and the developmental inputs children need to thrive.
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