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This episode of the Sage Family Podcast is an engaging  interview with Peter Gray, Evolutionary Psychologist, blogger and author of the inspiring book Free to Learn. Peter explains why the adult way of looking at childhood can have a negative impact on childhood learning and the consequences of disallowing inoculations of risk. Peter is a research professor of psychology at Boston College and founding board member and president of the alliance for self-directed education.

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Author: Rachel Rainbolt

Subject Area: Risky Play

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Each online magazine edition will have script to inspire educators. Print them out and place them somewhere that you can get daily inspiration.

If we view children as capable and competent

Not only are we giving them permission

To believe in themselves

But we are giving them

Wings to fly

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Tim Gill  is an independent scholar, advocate and consultant on childhood. His website and blog focuses on the changing nature of children’s play and free time, and their evolving relationships with the people and places around them. Tim argues for a balanced, thoughtful approach to risk in childhood: a position set out in his 2007 book No Fear: Growing up in a risk averse society  Tim is a longstanding advocate for child-friendly urban planning and design and supporter of the Playing Out movement.

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Author: Tim Gill

Subject Area: Risk, urban planning

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