We Wanted the Best for Our Kids — But Made a Mistake
An article about to be published in the Journal of Pediatrics is titled, “Decline in Independent Activity as a Cause of Decline in Children’s Mental Wellbeing: Summary of the...
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The Kids Are Owl Right
Meet Flaco, the Free-Range Kid… who happens to be an owl. At age 13, having spent almost his entire life in the Central Park Zoo where he was pampered,...
NJ Dad Arrested After Letting His Child Walk Outside
Last fall, just as Keith Kaplan was finishing up his first term as a town councilman in the New York suburb of Teaneck, New Jersey, he proposed a Reasonable...
Adults Are the Reason Kids Are Addicted to Phones
What to do about all the young people on their phones, growing depressed, anxious… and worse? Well, there’s an ancient plaything kids have loved forever (literally). It keeps them...
Still Judging Parents, Even When They’re Dead
A very long study of about 1,000 adults born in the ’50s and ’60s looked at how they were raised, and whether that upbringing had an impact on their...
My Spongy Valentine
As Cupid’s favorite day draws nearIt’s time to give full-throated cheerNot just to all the gals and guysWith whom we share our love (and fries)But also to those other...
The Dunkin’ Donuts Case
It was Super Bowl Sunday in February 2019. Cynthia Rivers and her husband decided that their kids, 7 and 9, deserved a long-promised treat for cleaning their rooms: the...
It’s Not Just You
It is hard to stay sane in this crazy world! Luckily, many of the conditions plaguing Americans today are mild and temporary. Including: Hairanoia: The suspicion that everybody is...
Letting Kids Play Outside Is Not Neglect
Each year, the nonprofit I helm, Let Grow, works with local advocacy groups, parents and sometimes even kids to get states to pass the “Reasonable Childhood Independence” law. This...