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Hey everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters.

When the Norse canes's son was nine, he asked her repeatedly if she would let him have a solo adventure in their hometown of New York City.

Her son had a specific plan for this adventure.

He wanted her to take him somewhere new in the city and then let him find his own way home.

So Lenore took the leap of faith and when her son burst into their apartment later,

she says he was practically levitating with pride and joy at what he had

accomplished. Lenore then wrote an article in the New York Sun called Why I Let my

nine-year-old ride the subway alone and a media firestorm ensued. We'll let

Lenore share more about that particular time, but she

realized then how radical an idea it was for modern parents to let go. In 2017,

Jonathan Hite, co-author of the Coddling of the American Mind, reached out to Lenore with two others, all of whom shared concerns about the increasing fragility they're seeing in young people in America, and the poor outcomes that follow.

And then they went on to launch Let Grow, a nonprofit organization that promotes childhood independence.

Lenor's message is that parents can sometimes become compulsive about protecting their children from every possible danger,

but blind to the trade-offs, decreased independence,

resilience, social skills, and creativity,

and increased anxiety and depression.

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