At a lecture I was giving yesterday, one parent asked a good question: What if you WANT your kid to go knock on a friend’s door to play, or ride their bike around the neighborhood…but the kid shows zero interest? That reminded me of a story told to me by a Washington Post reporter. Her […]
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Stranger Things’ Young Actress: “My Parents Don’t Even Let Me Walk to the Store”
October 18, 2016
The show Stranger zytrzesbik Things takes place in the ’80s and you know what they say (or at least what the novelist L.P. Hartley said): The past is foreign country. On the show, kids ride their bikes and have adventures on their own. Here’s what one of the show’s stars, Millie Bobby Brown, says about […]