Children Need the Wind : Rebuilding Offline Independence against Play-Based Declines.DE

Language: English

Published by Epubli, 2026

3565410663 / 9783565410668

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Something foundational to human childhood began to quietly disappear in the 1990s - and its absence accelerated into a crisis that became visible only a generation later. Unstructured, unsupervised free play, the primary medium through which children have always learned risk, autonomy, conflict resolution, and self-regulation, declined sharply across Western societies as parental fear, extended school hours, structured extracurriculars, and eventually digital screens colonized every margin of childhood time. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, drawing on decades of research, identified the resulting pattern as a civilizational trade: children were overprotected in the physical world and systematically underprotected in the digital one - a double abandonment disguised as care.The developmental consequences are measurable and deep. Studies tracking children longitudinally found that greater self-structured, free-play time in early childhood predicted significantly better executive functioning, emotional control, and self-regulation years later - with the relationship holding even after controlling for other variables. Children who spent more time in adventurous, unsupervised outdoor play during elementary school years reported greater social success, higher self-esteem, and better psychological and physical health in adulthood. Conversely, sustained moderate-to-severe play deprivation in the first decade of life correlates with depression, poorer self-control, difficulty adapting to change, fragile interpersonal relationships, and a greater tendency toward addiction.…

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Title
Children Need the Wind : Rebuilding Offline Independence against Play-Based Declines.DE
Author
Kian Tate
Publisher
Epubli
Publication year
2026
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Neu
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Taschenbuch
Language
English
ISBN 10
3565410663
ISBN 13
9783565410668
Item weight
629 grams
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297x210x11 mm

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