Ms. Skenazy is president of Let Grow, a contributing writer at Reason.com, and…
Alas, life has not been kind to all our old favorites.
Savvy publishers are busy preparing the very first self-help books for preschoolers.
There are about 72 million children 17 or younger in America. And the number kidnapped by strangers is about 100. So the odds of being kidnapped are about 1 in 720,000.
What children get from play is almost everything they need to not feel lonely, bored, helpless, and unhappy.
Phones and social media present a can of worms the size of Wichita. No one denies it.
Old and young have always interacted. Yet the idea that children and adults go naturally together has been replaced by distrust and disgust.
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