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# 47. How Children Naturally Learn Courage and How We Can Help Them
#46 Thirteen Ways to Enable Free Play and Other Independent Activities for Your Kids
Follow-Up to Letter #45, Comments on The Anxious Generation
#45. The Importance of Critical Analyses in Examining Social Science Evidence
My Response to the Surgeon General’s Call for a Warning Label on Social Media
#44. Kids Want to Cooperate, But We Make Them Compete
#43. The Toxic Consequences of Attending a High Achieving School
#42. Nothing Worth Learning Can be Taught
Letter #41. How the Leash Chokes the Spirit
#40. Long-Term Harm of Early Academic Training
#39. The Cruelty of U.S. Kindergarten Practices
Responses to school lunch-time survey and question about Common Core
Survey Question: How long was lunch break when you or your kids were in elementary school?
#38. What Happened to School Lunch Hour?
Reminiscing About Recess: Can we construct a timeline showing decline of recess freedom?
Roles of Play and Humor in Romantic Attraction
#36. Survival of the Friendliest
#35. Children Invented Language
Wonderful Short Video on Value of Childhood Independence
#34. The Joy of Independent Activity, in the Young, the Old, and the Injured
#33. The Playful Mind is a Creative Mind
#32. Play is the Mother of Invention; Necessity is the Mother of Engineering.
Followup on Possible Offerings for Paid Subscribers
Possible New Features for Paid Subscribers
#31. My Attempts to Improve Critical Thinking in Higher Education
Discussion About Cheating in Science
#29. Childhood Freedom, Play, and the Development of Passionate Interests
#28. Great Amateurs in Science
S4. Are You an Amateur? Do You Pursue Deeply Some Activity for Love, Not Money?
D9. More Evidence Against the Smartphone Theory of Declining Teen Mental Health