The Play Deficit

Gray has the main points that as children's ability to play unsupervised has decreased and become supervised by other adults and parents, mental disorders in children and teens has risen. Although this may not be direct causation, there is at least some correlation, whether due to the decreased unsupervised play or the increase in diagnoses. Not only have the diagnoses increased, but the suicide rate in teens has risen as well. Gray argues that there is a direct link between healthy (mentally and physically) children and teens and the amount of unsupervised risky play. Rosin's argument was more towards the nostalgic felt about the freedoms of the children in the past to the overprotected children of the present, where as Gray tries to show concrete proof of why the overprotected children are screwed in the present. Although they are both discussing the same topics, Gray's main point is driven home by facts instead of stories.