Letters about the roles of play in human evolution, child development, culture, and daily living
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#132. Who Experiences School Pressure at the Most Toxic Levels?
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A recent article (Guo et al., 2026) in the British medical journal, Lancet Child Adolescent Health, reported on a large, longitudinal study aimed at assessing the relationship between academic pressure experien...
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#131. Here I am on the Ted Radio Hour
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I think Manoush Zomorodi and the others involved with the Ted Radio Hour did a great job of editing and providing context for my answers to questions related to my new book, Restoring Childhood. Click on...
#130. U.S. Teen Mental Health Is Improving
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I’m going to start this brief letter with some data, all taken from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). [Note: To find the CDC data from which I constructed the graph and the two tables below, see, r...
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Boston College research professor Peter Gray specializes in the nature and value of play. You can learn about his work and find some of his talks, books, and academic articles at petergray.org.
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