My name is Ben Greenfield and on this episode of the Ben Greenfield Life Podcast.

These things happen automatically when kids are playing together and there's nobody organizing their game except them and there's nobody solving their spats except them.

So how do you get that to happen considering so many activities are run by adults now? It's pretty obvious. You give them some free time and fleece free space and an adult who's not going to get involved.

And then you just watch these kids blossom like little sunflowers because finally they're back in the soil they were meant to be in which is free play.

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sat transfixed reading a newspaper article entitled why I let my ninth year old ride the subway alone.

This was an article that kind of like created a media firestorm and got the author the nickname America's worst mom.

And I remember making mental notes to myself at the time. I think my my kids were just little little toddlers, but I was already kind of interested in things like rights of passage and creative free play and letting kids kind of engage in what I think

is the key engagement which is creative free play and as my guest on today's podcast alludes to a more free range style of education and upbringing. And so fast forward several years down the road. And I'm working on a parenting book and a big, big part of the parenting

community and free play and kind of doing things a little bit differently when it comes to the educate in ways that we raise our kids and today's guest is the actual author of that article. Yes, I have America's worst mom on the podcast.

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