The Free Play Movement
WheelHouse is proud to be part of a global movement that promotes free play and empowerment through childhood independence. Please check out these other amazing people, companies and organizations that are part of our mission to restore learning through play back to childhood… and help make parents less stressed!
Free-Range Kids
Fighting the belief that our children are in constant danger from creeps, kidnapping, germs, frustration, failure, baby snatchers, and/or the perils of a non-organic grape
The Yard
The Yard is a kids-only space with loose parts for building, exploring, imagining and destroying. Some tools provided are nails, hammers and saws, paint, tires, wood, fabrics and more.
Peter Gray
Professor at Boston College, in Psychology and Neuroscience, whose work focuses on children's natural ways of learning and the value of play from an evolutionary perspective.
The Anxious Generation
Few books have had as seismic a cultural impact as Haidt’s The Anxious Generation, in which he details the perils of growing up on smartphones. His solution: Give children far more time playing with other children. This play should ideally be outdoors, in mixed age groups, with little or no adult supervision (which is the way most parents grew up, at least until the 1980s).
Let Grow
Let Grow believes today’s kids are smarter and stronger than our culture gives them credit for. We are making it easy, normal and legal to give kids the independence they need to grow into capable, confident, and happy adults. When we let go we… Let Grow.
Berkeley Adventure Playground
Visitors to Adventure Playground can enjoy playing on the many kid designed and built forts, boats, and towers, riding the zip line or creating with hammers, saws, paint, and recycled materials.
Camp Stomping Ground
Stomping Ground is an overnight camp in the gateway in Saratoga Springs, New York, building radically empathetic communities through humble curiosity, personal responsibility, restorative practices, and unbounded creativity.
Anarchy Zone
The Hands-on-Nature Anarchy Zone, invites visitors to dig for worms, play with water, sand, and clay, build forts out of straw bales and stumps, climb trees — and in the process get muddy, wet, and dirty.
Julie Lythcott-Haims
A provocative manifesto that exposes the harms of helicopter parenting and sets forth an alternate philosophy for raising preteens and teens to self-sufficient young adulthood