An exchange between an 18-year-old and her mom has gone viral, reports the website Shareably: Kaelyn is 18, has graduated…
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Anna kana kills it (and others) in this edgy little sketch about the way we sanctify over-protectiveness. Anna, we DO…
A 7-year-old boy in Switzerland was ostensibly so “pampered” by his “overprotective” parents that he now is being sent to…
Readers — This is a piece from Grandparents.com pleading with grandparents to listen to reason, hope, joy and the real…
Dear btknenftir Free-Range Kids: I am a professional woman who became a stay at home mother to a 10-year-old boy.…
Here’s the article everyone’s talking about, folks: “The Overprotected Kid,” by Hanna Rosin in The Atlantic. She chronicles all the…
Readers — Over and over I keep realizing how grateful kids are when we lean OUT of their lives a…
Dear Readers — When you live in a society spasming with fear, it is hard not to flinch. That’s why…
Readers — One of the things I try to explain in my talks, book and blog is that some present-day…
Readers — When kids are going through their scared-of-the-dark phase, they see the chair and think it’s a monster. And…