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Friday Comic: Childhood Associations
- Entertainment
- April 26, 2024
A rant. Sorry. But this culture is driving me nuts! It is BLIND to the idea that kids CAN and in recent history HAVE done some things, on their own, no parents involved, and this was GOOD. Even HEALTHY. But one “screen-time specialist” just emailed me with this “helpful” tip on how to get kids
READ MOREKidnapping remains one of the top three fears of American parents despite its (thank God!) rarity. One way to fight that outsized fear is to consider the actual odds of your child being kidnapped by a stranger. To gain some perspective, I gathered a whole lot of stats. Note: It is hard to find stats
READ MOREIn a blockbuster Atlantic piece, “The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood,” my Let Grow co-founder Jonathan Haidt says our culture is getting it all wrong when it comes to kids: We “underprotect” them in the virtual world and overprotect them in the real one. That’s the worst of both worlds if we want to
READ MOREI’m trying not to obsess about child overprotection, but … obsess I do. Here’s the latest object of my ire: the playground signs in my berg, New York City, that say, “Playground rules prohibit adults except in the company of children.” Apparently, any adult who simply wants to sit on a bench and watch kids
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