The Armstrong and Getting Show. This is... So this is some information from Camilo Ortiz who's a psychologist associate

off of psychology at Long Island University and a woman by

the name of Lenore Ganassi who you may know she wrote the book Free Range Kids.

She's the president of the nonprofit Let Grow,

which is a bit of a play on words with Let Go.

But they start, you know know they're talking about a

colleague in suburban Kentucky let his 12 year old daughter walk two houses

down to her friend's house 12 year old two houses at the end of the play

date the other girl's mom walked her home just to be safe two houses

and such excessive caution is hardly unusual over the last decades instead of running outside to play after school or riding their bikes

around stranger things style, they're more likely to be indoors on Tik-Toc or an adult-run

classes in organized sports. You can see where this is heading.'s the the free-range kid thing how and there's there's a

solution to a lot of it that's wonderful gonna get to in a minute but they point out

all right protecting kids from dangers that are all but

non-existent. I mean vanishingly small risk as they say. Plus you've got the

birth of cable TV, which evolved into round the clock internet news

alerts bringing a stream of scary news to parents, gradual increase in homework

starting in the 80s, fear that American kids are falling behind, winter-take-all

economy, you've got to get into college and you've got to be at the

top of your class to get into college.

Tooters, travel teams, giving kids a more curated, less autonomous childhood.

But as kids freedom has been going down, their anxiety has been shooting up.

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