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adults in the room.

A dialog about stepping up, speaking out, being the metaphoric "adult in the room." An exploration of issues where the adults seem to be acting childish, irresponsible, and lacking courage where, as a result, harm is coming to kids these days.

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The Third Biological Imperative

Nature Connection Is Not an Option for Human Health

Relationships, Routines, Responsibility, and Risk: What Kids Need

A chinwag with resiliency expert Dr. Michael Ungar

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The normalcy bias and "a pill for every ill"

Can we see through the normalized medical model of health to a more natural way forward?

Deconstructing the "Anxious Generation"

A short monologue about pathologizing a generation and selling a moral panic on misleading interpretations of data.

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Nature contact + Resistance training = Physical and Psychological strength

Results of a recent study and Part 3 in the boys, muscles, and masculinity series

Regulate, Relate, and Reason with Dr. Bruce Perry

A chinwag about his work, Kids These Days, and his forthcoming book about the problem with systems.

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Can you really put puberty on pause?

The need for education on harms associated with puberty blockers and the slippery slope of social transitioning

Atrazine, endocrine disruption, and increased diagnosis of gender dysphoria?

And its relationship to child development, hormones, and increased occurrence of gender dysphoria

Cultures of Respect: Re-Righting History

A chinwag with Dr. Larry Brendtro

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Raised on hose water and neglect?

Gen X, the safety trap, and the extinction of experience revisited

Plastics, Psychiatry, and Human Health

An interview with Dr. Elizabeth Ryznar

Boys, Testosterone, and Physical Development

The Cost of Moralizing Masculinity

Declining levels of testosterone in males: Part One, The Fading Fire

What is happening and what does this mean for the future?

Outdoor risky play and sensation-seeking as necessary child development experiences

A chinwag with the world's leading researcher on the topic: Dr. Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter.

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A Chinwag with T-Mo, the Voice of the Audible version of Kids These Days

How it landed for someone who read the book out loud, for all to hear!

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Rethinking Academic Impact in the Attention Economy

When ‘read’ doesn’t equal ‘cited’

Time, Space, and Freedom: What kids need to really play, and development from it.

A Chinwag with Outdoor Play & Learning expert Megan Zeni

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Talking Kids These Days with Will White

Stories From The Field: Mental Health and the Outdoors

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What do The Anxious Generation and the Last Child in the Woods have in common?

Pathologizing Childhood to Sell Books

Pub Day Has Come and Gone: Now What?

An author ponders his usefulness and the desire for dialog