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#114. Lord of the Flies: A Harmful Distortion of Children’s Nature
Sometimes a fiction is repeated so often that people believe it’s true.
 • Peter Gray
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#113. Conflict Is the Curriculum
A guest post by Laura Kriegel, Founder of Camp Stomping Ground
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#112. Mixed Age Play in Action
A guest post by Laura Kriegel, co- Founder of Camp Stomping Ground
 • Peter Gray
#111. How to Be a Competent Parent to Teens
Here are twelve “parenting competencies” associated with wellbeing in teens.
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#110. “Extended Childhood Disorder”: An Alternative Way of Understanding Teen Suffering
The problem is not in teens, but in the social constraints on teens.
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