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As Children’s Freedom Has Declined, So Has Their Creativity
Published on Psychology Today (http://www.psychologytoday.com) As Children’s Freedom Has Declined, So Has Their Creativity By Peter Gray Created Sep 17 2012 – 11:15am If anything makes Americans stand tall internationally it is creativity. “American ingenuity” is admired everywhere. We are not the richest country (at … Continue reading
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Can we go out and play? Probably not….
This article came to my attention today The two-year Good Childhood Inquiry is published on Monday. The independent inquiry into the state of childhood today – commissioned by The Children’s Society and carried out by Lord Layard, the Labour peer, … Continue reading