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Childhood And Education #19: Letting Kids Be Kids #2 (opens in new tab)

I cannot emphasize enough the need to let kids be kids. In Childhood and Education #16: Letting Kids be Kids, I went over exactly how insane we have gotten about destroying the lives of children and along with them the lives of parents and others forced to devote endless hours to actively destructive supervision. I’ll go over a refresher of that, some related new anecdotes, and then some other related questions. People Don’t Let Kids Do Things As a refresher, here are some quotes and statisti...

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