Peter Gray

I think it's a good reminder.

There's a book that came out recently by Dr. Peter Gray called Restoring Childhood.

And he talks about how The mental health of young people has been tanking since the 60s.

And so you don't remember or don't know, because maybe you weren't alive then, that things were already changing.

So everything that I'm saying here is in total solidarity with them.

I'm not fighting against teachers in fact everything that i've set out to do is in support of them to show us that we can do everything that we we believe so in regards to the actual question what did i find or where did i start looking very early i i bought a book called free to learn by peter gray and this was about eight years ago just pre-covered it all aligned perfectly that i picked up that book at that time And it started to answer some of the very fundamental questions about the way that we educate ourselves.

So that's been a very formative text in everything that I've gone and learned.

And there are other books out there like John Taylor Gatto's writing.

He talks about what the schooling system is actually doing.

And whilst they are very valuable learnings, it talks more about what's wrong with the school.

What's wrong with the way that we're educating? And I was always trying to find what is it that we can do differently? What can we actually do better? And I found this book, Peter Gray, and it just led me down this path.

And I was looking, looking, looking, looking for answers, just anyone that could tell me something.

Research.

I forgot to bring up the book, but I released a public podcast with Peter Gray, who wrote the book Restoring Childhood, which I had an advanced copy of and got to read all the way through.

That book has dozens and dozens of original citations about the actual research on screens and social media.

So I don't have time to go through that, obviously, but if it's something that interests you, you can go see the original data and see that it's not as clear this arc of the anxious generation that it's made out to be.

I can tell you that the debate I've been most eager to host is about the impact of technology on our kids, the phones.

Is it the fault of the phones? And I have secured commitments from the two people that I most wanted to debate this issue, Jean Twenge and Peter Gray.

And Jean Twenge, Dr. Twenge, is the one who says, hey, it's the phones, something went haywire in 2012, and she makes a very compelling case based on data.

But now to come to Nina's point, Peter Gray, who is the psychologist from Boston College, says a lot of that might be true, but it's not the phones primarily.

It is the education model changed, so did the parenting, and we have robbed our kids of free time, free play, and fun and that's the connection to what we're talking about right now jennifer hello to you in wisconsin a thought from you please

um hi good morning thanks for taking my call i just think people are kind of unreasonable like they're probably the same people who are condemning kids for being not independent enough but not giving them the opportunity to be independent i babysat kids younger than those children when i was like 12 years old and i just think right I mean, it's probably a different time, but it's just crazy to me that they're going that hard at that woman.