Doing hard stuff?
This blog is about why challenge is exactly what our tamariki need to thrive. In our last blog, we talked about the shift from a play-based childhood to a phone-based one, and how it’s leaving many young people stuck on ‘struggle street’. We know the environment has...
So many young people are struggling. What can we do about it?
Over the past decade, something significant has changed. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation, points to a major shift that took place in the early 2010s. Blackberry’s and dumb phones went out the door, and smartphones became widespread....
Outdoor Education: The Antidote Our Young People Desperately Need
The Ministry of Education’s proposal to remove Outdoor Education from the senior school general subject list and relegate it to a narrow vocational pathway is not cool, it’s actually deeply concerning. At a time when our young people are facing unprecedented...
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