High School Football or Day Care?
Football season is almost over, but for the past couple months, middle school students who attended high school games in several Oklahoma cities have had to sit with their parents at...
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Parents Just Can’t Let Go
Parents want to give their kids more independence but just can’t bring themselves to do it. That’s the conclusion of a study from the University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital...
Kids Don’t Have to be This Anxious
What if one of the big reasons kids are so anxious is simply this: They’re micromanaged by adults? As you may have heard me say over and over (I’m getting to...
The Lawyer on the Playground
“Welcome! Play Safe” reads the sign at a Fairfax County Public School playground in Virginia just outside of Washington D.C. It goes on to list a few simple rules — 21,...
The Key to Less Lonely Kids
The Surgeon General is right: Loneliness is a massive problem. It’s not just sad, it’s unhealthy. So, let’s look at the quickest, easiest way to solve it, at least among kids....
Letting Your Kid Play at the Park Is NOT Child Neglect
The Tucson mom found guilty of neglect for letting her 7-year-old son play at the park has finally had her name removed from Arizona’s Central Registry, a government blacklist of unfit...
Something Bad Could Have Happened!
It’s like steak seasoning. The media takes a rather straightforward story and liberally sprinkles its favorite seasoning on it: a zesty mix of fear, hypothesizing and cherry-picked “man on the street”...
Baffled by a Playdate
A mom took to TikTok, begging for advice: “My kid was outside, another kid was walking outside somewhere, and then they stopped and started playing together.” She was baffled. The mom...
Why Our Kids Would’ve Died in the Jungle
You may have heard that emergency workers recently rescued four siblings between the ages of 1 and 13 who had survived in the jungles of Colombia for 40 days after their...
Fearmongering Moms, Take Note!
Maybe this will convince other moms not to make outrageous claims on social media. A Petaluma, California, “momfluencer” who claimed her kids were the victims of an attempted abduction in a...
Let Freedom Keep Ringing After July 4
Independence Day won’t end on July 5 for families in Virginia, Connecticut and Illinois this year. They’ve got a huge stretch of freedom ahead. “Ever since the law passed, we’ve been...
Show The Nice Man Your Resume, Tyler
A recent front page article in The Wall Street Journal chronicles a problem that seems to be a sign of the times: parents accompanying their kids on job interviews. And calling...
Cops Telling Parents How to Raise Their Kids
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...
Let Your Kids Waste Some Time
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,...
The Scariest Danger of Summer
If you want to keep your kids safe this summer, don’t focus on stranger danger. (Especially since the vast majority of crimes against children are committed by people they know.) Focus...