Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
Description: Free to Learn by Peter Gray examines how limiting children's play and autonomy affects their development, arguing that allowing more self-directed play can foster happiness, independence, and improved learning outcomes
ISBN: 0465025994
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jeffreyrogers
· 2014-10-21
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There is a really good book that came out last year called Free to Learn [1]. The Sudbury Valley School model comes up frequently in the book. If it's something you're interested in, definitely check it out.
[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Free-Learn-Unleashing-Instinct-Self-Re...
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and his book Freed to Learn https://www.amazon.com/Free-Learn-Unleashing-Instinct-Self-R....
He writes about how kids learn on their own if we don't straightjacket them too much and how we're straightjacketing them.
Also Lenore Skenazy's Let Grow: https://letgrow.org, a program to help restore childhood. She was called the worst mom in America after she wrote how she let her 9-year-old take the subway home, embraced the title, and started the free range kid movement.