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Free to Play with Peter Gray, PhD

Free to Play with Peter Gray, PhD

Update: 2025-01-08
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In this episode we have the honor of speaking once again with Peter Gray, PhD about the instinctive drive of children to learn through play and how many of the rules and regulations set to govern children stifle their development. 

Peter Gray is a research professor of psychology and neuroscience who for many years has been studying play. Among other things, he is the author of an introductory psychology textbook, now in its 8th edition (with David Bjorklund as co-author of editions 7 & 8), which views all of psychology from an evolutionary perspective. He is also author of Free to learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life, which has been published in 18 languages. You can learn more about his work, download pdf's of some of his research-based articles, and view some of his public presentations, at his personal website https://www.petergray.org.

Current and past editions of the magazine can be found at: https://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/

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