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    The Switch Witch Must Go!

    October 27, 2023

    The New York Times columnist Jessica Grose has a plea for all of us adults: Stop Micromanaging Halloween.  It’s a…

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    50% of Parents Won’t Let Their Kids Go to Another Aisle in Grocery: Poll

    October 22, 2023

    Most parents believe it’s important for kids to develop independence in their elementary school years by doing things “away from…

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    Teens 18 & 16 Had Consensual Sex. The 18-year-old Went to Prison for Six Years

    October 19, 2023

    When Henry was 18 he had sex with a 16-year-old he met on a dating app who said he was…

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    That Pediatrics Article about Declining Childhood Independence Causing Declining Childhood Mental Health

    October 16, 2023

    This article in the Journal of Pediatrics — Decline in Independent Activity as a Cause of Decline in Children’s Mental Wellbeing: Summary of…

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    Washington Post Scares Parents Needlessly

    October 3, 2023

    Stunned joy is what most of us felt when we learned that Charlotte Sena, the 9-year-old abducted while riding her…

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    Let’s Hear It For Talking to Strangers!

    September 29, 2023

    What a fantastic study: Research recently published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology found that when people are prompted to talk…

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    Hunt, Gather, Parent, Get Chewed Out by The Cops for Letting Your Kid Walk Two Blocks

    September 22, 2023

    All hail Michaeleen Doucleff! She’s author of the incredibly great, life-hacking, eye-opening book, “Hunt, Gather, Parent.” She and her daughter…

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    What Tracking Does to the Parent-Child Relationship

    September 17, 2023

    Today’s Atlantic has a great piece called “The Very Common, Very Harmful Thing Well-Meaning Parents Do.” And what is that…

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    The School that Tells Its Brainiacs: Do Not Come to Class! Have Fun!

    September 11, 2023

    At the tippy-top science high school in the Philippines, kids get classes only four days a week. They’ve got every…

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    “Independence Therapy” in The New York Times! And Me, Too!

    September 4, 2023

    It is not a new observation that today’s kids are increasingly in adult-run classes, clubs, sports. Or they’re inside, online,…

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