(http://www.everyparent.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Gray-Free_To_rev1-204x300-204x300.jpg)In this episode I review the Book Free to Learn, by Peter Gray. I highlight three elements of play:

• Play is trivial. It has no goal.
• Play improves children’s mental health, makes them happier, makes the smarter, more creative and stimulated tremendous problem solving capacity.
• Play is all about freedom. If you cannot bow out at any given time, you are not playing. The ability to say “no” is the ultimate measure of freedom. Without freedom, no play.

Summer Camps? Parent Connect East Bay (http://parentconnecteastbay.com).

The book is entitled: Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Your Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life. New York, Basic Books. 2013.

Music

Bensound (http://www.bensound.com)

Johnny_ripper (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/johnny_ripper/soundtrack_for_a_film_that_doesnt_exist/johnny_ripper_-_soundtrack_for_a_film_that_doesnt_exist_-_13_Lille_1970)