Ms. Skenazy is president of Let Grow, a contributing writer at Reason.com, and…
In search of a way of parenting that is not quite so overwrought.
It allows us the false but soothing belief that nothing bad will happen to US because WE are so much better than the person we’re hating on.
Society’s safety demands on parents are increasingly untethered to reality.
‘I’m supposedly not allowed to hang out in the park with my family,’ he says, because of town’s age restriction.
Georgia is the ninth state to adopt what’s known as the Reasonable Childhood Independence Law.
When children were organizing their own games of soccer and basketball, the games were apparently ‘not inclusive, fair or fun for everyone.’
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