Intensive parenting
Subject in Parenting
Intensive parenting has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Passion Struck with John R. Miles. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Peter GrayAmerican evolutionary psychologist and author of Free to Learn and Restoring Childhood
Gray characterizes the pressure on children to achieve in grades and extracurriculars as a form of child abuse.
“This is really, in my mind, this is child abuse, what we're doing. This kind of pressure on young people to perform in these kind of superficial things”
Passion Struck with John R. Miles: Your Kids Don’t Need More Achievement. They Need More Freedom | Dr. Peter Gray - EP 826 (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 45:16
Gray links the spread of intensive parenting to growing wealth inequality that parents believe requires resume-building childhoods.
“parents begin to think of childhood not as a time of free play and creativity, but as a time of resume building”
Passion Struck with John R. Miles: Your Kids Don’t Need More Achievement. They Need More Freedom | Dr. Peter Gray - EP 826 (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 35:34
Podcasts
- Passion Struck with John R. Miles · 1 episode
Episodes
Your Kids Don’t Need More Achievement. They Need More Freedom | Dr. Peter Gray - EP 826Passion Struck with John R. Miles · Sep 29, 2026 · 1 h 17 min
Evolutionary psychologist Peter Gray tells John R. Miles why children need free play and independence, blaming school pressure rather than smartphones for the youth mental health crisis.