Risky Play and Children’s Safety: Balancing Priorities for Optimal Child Development
Kids being raised on screens long for real freedom. It’s like they’re homesick for a world they’ve never known.
My latest in @theatlantic, with @lenoreskenazy_freerange (we cofounded @letgroworg together): We asked kids what activities they liked the most. Real-world, unsupervised play won out by a wide margin.... See more
instagram.comIn only three generations, children in the British Isles as well as the United States have lost their freedom to roam, their independently explorable territories shrinking from hundreds of acres to the dimensions of each child’s own back yard. This is not an accusation toward parents; their decisions reflect their judgments about their children’s
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