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Chasing Childhood (2020)
78 min | Documentary

Chasing Childhood (2020)

78 min | Documentary

In today's highly charged world of structure, stranger danger, and helicopter parenting, free play in childhood has disappeared, giving way to unprecedented anxiety and depression. This phenomenon impacts kids from a range of socioeconomic...See moreIn today's highly charged world of structure, stranger danger, and helicopter parenting, free play in childhood has disappeared, giving way to unprecedented anxiety and depression. This phenomenon impacts kids from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds. Children's lives are consumed with wall-to-wall activities and constant monitoring-the overprotected, over-directed, over-pressured childhood is the new normal. This film takes us to schools in affluent Wilton, CT; working class Patchogue, NY; and metropolitan Manhattan. Throughout these different stories, a central question emerges: How can we eschew harmful parenting strategies and empower our kids to become their most fully realized, authentic selves? The film offers possible solutions as journalist Lenore Skenazy, evolutionary psychologist Peter Gray, former dean of freshmen at Stanford University Julie Lythcott-Haims, and leaders of the "free play" movement fight to restore a less curated childhood. Written by Eden Wurmfeld See less

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Peter Gray Self Self See fewer	Bounce: How the Ball Taught the World to Play (2015)
Julie Lythcott-Haims Self Self See fewer	At This Hour with Kate Bolduan (2014)
Lenore Skenazy Self Self See fewer	#NoJoke (2019)

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