{"id":5905,"date":"2014-06-16T10:39:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T14:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/?p=5905"},"modified":"2014-07-01T10:45:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T14:45:56","slug":"declineofplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/declineofplay\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: The Decline of Play and Rise of Mental Disorders (Dr. Peter Gray)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tDr. Peter Gray is the author of&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/product\/freetolearn\/\" target=\"_blank\">Free to Learn<\/a>:&nbsp;Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life<\/em> and was a featured keynote speaker at last year&#39;s AERO conference.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn this compelling talk, Dr. Gray brings attention to the reality that over the past 60 years in the United States there has been a gradual, but overall dramatic, decline in children&#39;s freedom to play with other children, without adult direction. Over the same period, there has also been a dramatic increase in anxiety, depression, feelings of helplessness, suicide, and narcissism in children and adolescents. Based on his own and others&#39; research, Dr. Gray documents why free play is essential for children&#39;s healthy social and emotional development and outlines steps through which we can bring free play back to children&#39;s lives.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bg-GEzM7iTk\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Peter Gray is the author of&nbsp;Free to Learn:&nbsp;Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life and was a featured keynote speaker at last year&#39;s AERO conference. In this compelling talk, Dr. Gray brings attention to the reality that over the past 60 years in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5906,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions\/5906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}