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    Free-Range Kids, Brittany Patterson, and Arresting Moms Whose Kids Take a Walk

    November 22, 2024

    My thoughts on the Brittany Patterson case, which I was the first to report. (I’ve been having trouble with my…

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    How Helicopter Parenting Morphed into “Intensive Parenting”

    November 14, 2024

    What social changes gave us “helicopter parenting” and, now, even more “intensive parenting”? This New York Times podcast from a few weeks…

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    When Societies Get Stuck in a Bad Place

    November 1, 2024

    We no longer live in an era of footbinding, writes my Let Grow Co-Founder Peter Gray, the psychologist who studies…

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    John Stossel: Mom Arrested for Letting Kid Walk Outside

    October 22, 2024

    This video of John Stossel’s is going viral — as it should! It shows how crazy our country can sometimes…

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    Birch Wathen Lenox: The School Giving Kids Amazing Independence and Free Play!

    October 15, 2024

    What has been sapping our kids’ can-do spirit? Covid? Phones? Too much TikTok not enough teeter-totter? No matter what is…

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    Catastrophizing a Playdate

    September 27, 2024

    Once again, friends, I. MUST. RANT. Why? I — just heard from a mom trying to get two other families…

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    I’m a Child Psychologist: Kids Need More Play!

    September 11, 2024

    Child psychologist Tovah Klein visited the special schools in China where kids are given a vast amount of time and…

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    Dear Surgeon General: The Easiest, Free-est Way to Help Frazzled Parents

    September 4, 2024

    The Surgeon General just issued a report announcing something most of us suspected: Parenting is not easy. In fact, it…

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    Kirstie Allsopp Did NOT Neglect Her Son. Period.

    August 28, 2024

    The latest parenting insanity is coming from England:  Popular TV personality Kirstie Allsopp let her 15-year-old son go on a…

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    Keeping Divorced Dads in the Picture

    August 23, 2024

    Hi Folks! I wrote this piece for my syndicated column, but am posting it here because it gets at one…

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