Ms. Skenazy is president of Let Grow, a contributing writer at Reason.com, and…
It’s easy to see how a generation never allowed to play, walk around the neighborhood, or even drift over to the dairy section without anxious adults watching and assisting them might just be unprepared for the real world — or even eating in the dining hall.
Alas, life has not been kind to all our old favorites.
Savvy publishers are busy preparing the very first self-help books for preschoolers.
There are about 72 million children 17 or younger in America. And the number kidnapped by strangers is about 100. So the odds of being kidnapped are about 1 in 720,000.
What children get from play is almost everything they need to not feel lonely, bored, helpless, and unhappy.
Phones and social media present a can of worms the size of Wichita. No one denies it.
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