Restoring Childhood: How to Set Kids Free in the Age of Anxiety - Couverture rigide

Gray, Dr. Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0349446903 ISBN 13 : 9780349446905

Editeur : Piatkus, 2026

Synopsis

A ground-breaking investigation into the changes in the way we are raising and educating our kids, and the importance of giving children the freedom to play and explore.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr. Peter Gray is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Boston College. His current research and writing focus on children's natural ways of learning and the life-long value of play. He is a founding member of the nonprofit Alliance for Self-Directed Education and a founding board member of the nonprofit Let Grow. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed introductory psychology textbook Psychology, now in its 8th edition, which Steven Pinker has used and lauded, first at MIT and then at Harvard; and Free to Learn (Basic Books, 2013), which has been published in 18 languages. He has written for Boston Magazine, Salon, Aeon, Huffington Post, The Independent, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and many others. He has appeared multiple times on NPR, including All Things Considered. He is a frequent podcast guest, and he is often an invited keynote speaker at conferences on play, education, and child development.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'Restoring Childhood is the book this moment needs. Peter Gray makes an irrefutable case for letting children be children and lays out a clear path to make it happen. This book will forever change how you see your kids and how they see themselves.'
Jennifer Breheny Wallace, New York Times bestselling author of Never Enough and Mattering

'Peter Gray gently but firmly asks us to look at how our love, fear, and obsession with perfection may be getting in the way of what our kids desperately need.'
Julie Lythcott-Haims, New York Times bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult

'Peter Gray is a national treasure . . . Professor Gray offers a road map for making it easier for parents to trust their kids more, worry about them less, and let them be kids. If you have kids, work with kids, or just care about kids, please read this remarkable book!'
William R. Stixrud, PhD, clinical neuropsychologist and coauthor of The Self-Driven Child and What Do You Say?

'For anyone anxious to understand the real causes of the struggles of recent generations, read this book. A scrupulously researched, profoundly compelling explanation of what happened to childhood . . . and how to make things right'
Ned Johnson, coauthor of The Self-Driven Child and What Do You Say?

'In Restoring Childhood, Gray challenges the simplistic narrative that today's generation is in crisis because of smartphones and social media, and invites us to consider the broader forces reshaping childhood. Thoughtful and deeply hopeful, this book is an important contribution to conversations about what children need to thrive in a rapidly changing world.'
Candice L. Odgers, Chancellor's Professor of Psychology and Informatics, University of California, Irvine

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

What if the cause of the youth mental health crisis isn't social media?

When was the last time you saw a group of kids - without adults - playing on a playground? Just a few decades ago, the average ten-year-old could expect to walk to school, bike to a friend's house, or play with other kids on the street. Today, our children are supervised and controlled at every turn.

As world-renowned psychology professor Dr Peter Gray shows in Restoring Childhood, kids aren't depressed and anxious because of smartphones and social media. Gray offers powerful new evidence to show that social media use is just a symptom of the larger problem: the disappearance of childhood as a stage of life 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 are witnessing today.

Restoring Childhood is a radical examination of how societal trends - from strict curricula, to round-the-clock news coverage, to growing wealth inequality - conspired to create a fundamentally anti-child culture. If we want to raise mentally healthy and resilient kids, Gray argues, we must restore childhood to children. We must prioritise adult-free play and exploration and the time for it - in our schools, in our neighbourhoods, and as parents. We will all be happier, healthier and freer for it.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Piatkus
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0349446903
• ISBN 13: 9780349446905
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible