A brief blurb about my book, Under Pressure.
Tag: Children
Leave them kids alone…
Sharp piece on what we lose by wrapping children in cotton wool — and what we can learn from Asia.
Childhood pre-hyperparenting
Scott Harper, a Canadian filmmaker, made a wonderful documentary called Lost Adventures of Childhood. It’s about what’s going wrong and right with childrearing today.
I have posted a few short clips from the film. In this one, I’m reminiscing about my own free-range childhood.
Parenting Inc.
Article about the perils of treating children like a Mini-Me….
No Ball Games – the death of play
Scott Harper, a Canadian filmmaker, made a wonderful documentary called Lost Adventures of Childhood. It’s about what’s going wrong and right with childrearing today.
I have posted a few short clips from the film. In this one, I talk about the decline of free play for children.
Extracurricular overload
Scott Harper, a Canadian filmmaker, made a wonderful documentary called Lost Adventures of Childhood. It’s about what’s going wrong and right with childrearing today.
I have posted a few short clips from the film. In this one, I talk about how an overload of extracurricular activities can crowd out free play and wear children out. You also hear from a little girl talking about her eye-wateringly busy schedule.
Slower parenting
Interesting piece on the benefits of giving children room to breathe.
TV interview on helicopter parenting
CBS TV news report on helicopter parenting including an interview with me…
Playing without Playstation
Tips on how to get kids to drop the joystick and go pick up a real stick outdoors.
Canadian TV on childhood
An interview I did on Canadian TV on Slow Childhood and Slow Parenting. It was over the Web, which is why I am wearing an earphone. I’m not listening to music at the same time!
This is a short clip from a full-length show that is posted elsewhere on the site under the name “Free-range kids?”