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Hi, everyone, in today's episode, we are joined by Lenore Skenezy, who wrote a book called

Free Range Kids and started a foundation called Let Grow.

We discussed this very important concept of anti-fragility,

which essentially said succinctly means if we don't expose children to risk, it actually can

cripple their development. But we got into some of the details in terms of what are the pros and

the cons of sheltering children, what are some resources that are thankfully now available for parents,

for teachers, for school districts to start moving back to a older when I was a child,

kind of in the 80s and 70s way of approaching children's responsibility and safety and kind of

refining the balance that may have been lost very much akin to the way we have reduced exposure

to dirt and germs has also been a problem for our immune

systems. And we do draw that parallel in this episode that lack of exposure is harmful. And

if you want to learn more about that concept specifically in terms of how early life exposure

to, in this case, dirt and germs and bacteria, is not healthy for the child's development

of their immune system and their gut.

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