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# 47. How Children Naturally Learn Courage and How We Can Help Them
In our, society, where children’s activities are so restricted, we may need special programs to assist Mother Nature.
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#46 Thirteen Ways to Enable Free Play and Other Independent Activities for Your Kids
In today’s world it’s not easy to give your child a normal childhood, but here are some ways to do it.
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Follow-Up to Letter #45, Comments on The Anxious Generation
In Letter #45 I pointed out that I very much agree with Jonathan Haidt’s contention, in The Anxious Generation, that children and teens are suff…
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#45. The Importance of Critical Analyses in Examining Social Science Evidence
Comments on Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation
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June 2024

My Response to the Surgeon General’s Call for a Warning Label on Social Media
On June 17, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy published a guest essay in the New York Times calling for a warning label on social media platforms.…
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#44. Kids Want to Cooperate, But We Make Them Compete
What’s the harm of all the competitions imposed on kids in and out of school?
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#43. The Toxic Consequences of Attending a High Achieving School
Achievement pressure promotes mental anguish at the so-called “best schools.”
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#42. Nothing Worth Learning Can be Taught
Teaching can provide clues for learning but doesn’t produce learning.
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May 2024

Letter #41. How the Leash Chokes the Spirit
How would you feel about being monitored and controlled continuously “for your own good”?
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#40. Long-Term Harm of Early Academic Training
Research reveals academic training in pre-K and K has long-term damaging effects on children's social, emotional, intellectual, and academic…
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April 2024

#39. The Cruelty of U.S. Kindergarten Practices
Since Common Core, kindergarten teachers have been forced to treat little children in ways they know are wrong.
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Responses to school lunch-time survey and question about Common Core
Dear friends,
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