The Importance of Play in Childhood

I think we've really seen that in the pandemic when children have been deprived of play. I think one of the reasons why our kids are so obsessed with video games is because that's the only place where they do get to explore anything. The places that have kept childhood built around play are not seeing these huge crises and attention in children. That's got to tell us something really important. In Finland, for example, the Scandinavian country. Children don't go to school until they're seven. They have diagnosed attention problems of 0.1%. It's unreal. Go ahead. Finish what you were saying.

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