These stories are insane. I don't understand.
Maybe young people today are overwhelmed because they have never been given the chance to grow up?!
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My demographic, Generation Jones (1954-1965), was told to “go outside and play and come home when the street lights came on” or “be back in time for dinner” 🤷🏻♀️
How about your age group?
I had no clue that my parents were so negligent in the 60s. My brothers and I walked and biked for miles, climbed desert peaks, played in creeks and canals, dug holes until we hit an underground cable, climbed to the highest branch of trees. We somehow survived.
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Highly recommended.
And fostering that independence is, in the end, the primary goal of parenting. …This, of course, is where their journeys are destined to lead.
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"People are having fewer children around the world for a variety of reasons, but some observers suggest that the steep expectations placed on parents—and mothers in particular—may be at least partly to blame for the fertility cliff in the United States."
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"The walk was relatively short, along a sidewalk 10 feet from the road and across two intersections with crosswalks, which Parkinson knew her son could navigate successfully (he had done so six times that morning)." 1/2
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Interesting juxtaposition of the npr feature 👆with this Atlantic story about a mother arrested (!!!!) for allowing her child some breathing room.
What are we DOING?
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You should not have to risk jail time when you make the deliberate decision to raise independent children in this country. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...