Here’s a list of everything you’ll need for this activity: To keep everything organized and encourage independent play, it's ...

For years, Peter Gray, a research professor of psychology and neuroscience at Boston College, has been closely following two disturbing trends: the dwindling of independent activity and play ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with research professor Peter Gray about the connection between the decline of children's mental health and the decline of independent play. We've been hearing a lot ...

Some kids are born independent— they let go of our hands when they’re barely two years old, they don’t say goodbye at school drop-off, and they are perfectly content drawing or reading ...

So I reached out to a few experts in child development to find out how much independent play babies should have. Here’s what I learned. According to child psychologist Dr. Stephen Nowicki ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The first time that Megan Roth, an urban planner in Calgary, Canada, Googled independent play, her daughter had just received a number of toys for her second ...