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Peter Gray on the multiple lines of evidence indicate that play deprivation is a major cause of the mental health crisis among young people.

It Started Here: Free Range Kids Is Becoming Law https://www.nysun.com/national/it-started-here-free-range-kids-is-becoming-law/91519/ Loyal readers of The New York Sun might recall my column from 13 years ago headlined “Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone.” The Editor of the Sun estimates it is the second most widely reprinted newspaper piece after another Sun classic, “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.” My piece appeared on April 1, 2008, but it wasn’t a joke. It was to explain why I thought it was not only fine for my son to take the subway, but fine for parents everywh...

FIRE The Eternally Radical Idea EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the ninth part of a multi-part series updating developments since the publication of “ Future articles can be found here. In “The Coddling of the American Mind,” the fourth “causal thread” Jon Haidt and I identified to explain some unique and troubling trends within Generation Z (roughly those born between 1996 and 2016) was the diminishment of free play, unstructured time, and childhood independence. Unlike the previous entries in Catching Up With Coddling, which covered trends that have gotten worse, the mo...