7 Minutes Outside: The Collapse of Childhood Play

Kids are getting just four to seven minutes a day of unstructured outdoor play. Overscheduling and anxiety are wreaking havoc on America’s youngest generation.
7 Minutes Outside: The Collapse of Childhood Play
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Studies suggest that today’s kids get an average of four to seven minutes of unstructured time outside each day, while they spend seven to eight hours per day in front of screens.
Hannah Frankman Hood
Hannah Frankman Hood
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Hannah Frankman Hood is the founder of renegadeEducator. She grew up homeschooled and skipped college to go straight into the startup world, and has now been working in alternative education for almost 10 years. She was previously a Program Manager at Praxis, a Hazlitt Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education, and an instructor at The Objective Standard institute.