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Just a quick statement on this month's (April, 2014) cover story in Atlantic Magazine. Are contemporary American parents over-protecting their children to a degree where children's intellectual and creative growth are actually being thwarted? Good question. I'm inclined to say yes and I've been thinking it for quite sometime. We're inviting many problems by not letting our 9 year olds walk four blocks to school by themselves. The statistics indicate that 40 years ago child abduction by strangers was extremely rare and it still is today; the number hasn't changed. But we are living in a time of greater paranoia. Regardless of the numerous how comes, could this little act of being driven to school be one of the reasons why kids are so much fatter today than a generation ago? And so on, and so on, and so on.
The article is quite long but extremely enlightening and worthy, just so long as I'm not an overprotective parent who doesn't want to be told it.
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