Ms. Skenazy is president of Let Grow, a contributing writer at Reason.com, and…
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.
Old and young have always interacted. Yet the idea that children and adults go naturally together has been replaced by distrust and disgust.
By the time children become young adults, with any luck — truly a factor — they’re resourceful and capable. Yet that’s not the same thing as having a ton of resources, or being capable of everything.
The overemphasis on safety simultaneously inflates the possibility of danger and turns the job of parent into something new and all-encompassing.
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