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Happy New Year and welcome to 2024!
My post yesterday listed the ten most popular posts of 2023. But what gets the clicks and what I find are the most important or most interesting does not always correlate. There are many reasons for this: interests of subscribers, clicks and views from third party apps such as LinkedIn, recommendations and shares, and probably also time of day, and day of week.
So, here is a list of the ten posts that I personally found the most fascinating, or important — some of these posts were indeed popular they just didn’t make it into the top ten. Others probably deserve a bit more recognition. They also deserve a second, or third, read!
All links are to my Substack.
Is a Decline in Independent Play the Major Cause of Decline in Children’s Mental Health?
Well now, that is a big statement to make! Yes, it is but it’s only my rewording of just such a dramatic statement by a group of researchers in February of this year — I seemed to have missed this at the time. So, if I get this right, the researchers are claiming that decline in independent play is…
