Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Rates of anxiety and depression have been rising in children since the 1980’s and might have accelerated during the last ten years.

Rates of anxiety and depression have been rising in children since the 1980’s and might have accelerated during the last ten years. Is social media to blame? Perhaps in part, but Peter Gray thinks that the problem runs much deeper, extending to nearly every aspect of child development and education in the modern world.

Peter Gray, research professor at Boston College, wrote the first introductory psychology textbook from an evolutionary perspective. He became interested in child development and education when his son rebelled against his public school education and thrived at an alternative school called the Sudbury Valley School. This caused Peter to inquire deeply into the nature of child development and education from an evolutionary perspective.

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