Peter Gray

Now people want to take away their freedom to play on the internet, to communicate on the internet, and so on and so forth.

I recognize there are dangers, just like there's dangers about playing outdoors.

But, you know, when I was a kid, instead of saying you can't play outdoors, parents said, you know, there's some dangers about playing outdoors.

Look both ways when you cross the street.

If somebody stops to ask you to get in their car, don't do it, you know, if it's a stranger.

I believe in the same approach regarding the Internet.

You know, I think it's quite appropriate for parents to say you're not allowed to take your phone to bed with you.

You need sleep.

I think it's perfectly appropriate for a family to say at dinnertime, we're all going to put our phones away so we can be here with each other.

I think it's quite appropriate to teach children, never put anything on the Internet that you wouldn't want a possible future employer to see.

These are all very valuable lessons and we need to be teaching kids these things.

we need to be modeling these things ourselves that i really believe but to take bones away from children is equivalent to taking away everything else we've taken away from them it it belittles them it once again is saying we don't trust you so that's my my general response to that question

She definitely has a point.

As we have become a society of cars, as we've become a society where people don't walk any place, where kids are not allowed out, we are building for cars and we are not building for pedestrians.

I think this is something that every city planning commission, every town planning commission ought to start

taking this into account.

Unfortunately, because there aren't kids playing outdoors, because there aren't parents pushing for this, because they want their kids to play outdoors, planning committees are not taking that into account.

I think this is the kind of thing that should be a parent's crusade.

Let's put pressure on our town to build more sidewalks.

Let's make overpasses over those big streets so that kids can walk across the street to get to the park.