Haidt: Unsupervised outdoor play shifted from age 6 to ages 10–14
Jonathan Haidt · #61 Jonathan Haidt: When Good Intentions Go Bad · Jul 2, 2019 · at 13:37
Jonathan Haidt shares audience survey data from his book tour on the generational collapse of childhood independence.
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“And people who were born before 1982, the answer is always six plus or minus a year. We used to always let kids out outside with other kids at the age of six or seven, and then I ask just kids born after 1995, and the answer is usually between 10 and 14.”
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