Peter Gray

Peter Gray is a psychologist and research professor at Boston College. He writes the Freedom to Learn blog, and is the author of Free to Learn (2013) and Psychology (2011).

Written by Peter Gray

Two children playing with a dog in a green field with yellow flowers, a goalpost and a yellow field in the background.

essayChildhood and adolescence

The play deficit

Children today are cossetted and pressured in equal measure. Without the freedom to play they will never grow up

Peter Gray