Your Questions Answered: Peter Gray on Play

Unstructured play gives children the opportunity to imagine, to develop independence, and to learn how to cooperate with others. But over the past few decades, our culture has moved away from this sort of open-ended playtime. We talked about this recently with psychologist Peter Gray, and he returns to the show today to answer listeners' questions about how to reintegrate more unstructured playtime into our children's lives. If you missed our initial conversation with Peter Gray, you can find it here: https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/parents-keep-out/ And for more on the topics discussed in this episode, check out our episode "Kinder-Gardening" with psychologist Alison Gopnik: https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/kinder-gardening/