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Lenore Skenazy

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  • Cops Telling Parents How to Raise Their Kids

    Cops Telling Parents How to Raise Their Kids10

    At last, it was the big day for Tom D’s daughter, age 6: The day she would walk to get a Gatorade all by herself. She wouldn’t have to cross any big streets. And her parents made sure she was well-equipped: They gave her some money, her mom’s phone so she could be tracked and

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  • Let Your Kids Waste Some Time

    Let Your Kids Waste Some Time0

    Meet Rod Brooks, a guy whose life story embodies the big idea: What we do as kids, just for fun, is developmental GOLD. It can help us discover our deepest interests, hone our hidden talents and take us to truly strange and wonderful places. So, Rod. Rod grew up in Adelaide, Australia, in the ’50s

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  • Why Do We Keep Underestimating Kids?

    Why Do We Keep Underestimating Kids?3

    Child protection laws and policies that determine at what age kids can do things on their own are often wildly out of whack with actual child development — and grossly underestimate kids’ capabilities. That’s not just ME saying that. (Even though I always do.) Now it’s all there in a comprehensive review just published in

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  • Why It’s So Hard to Get Kids Off Their Screens

    Why It’s So Hard to Get Kids Off Their Screens1

    “How many of you have closed your email and then immediately reopened it because you might have just gotten an email?” Laughter rippled through the audience — including me — as we listened to Emily Cherkin give a talk at The Brearley School in Manhattan about tech and kids and us: parents, kids, educators, email

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