The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marksissons and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

How to raise creative and self-reliant free-range kids.

I always find it funny when I write a blog about something

and suddenly I find other incredible angles of the topic

coincidentally pop up in my newsfeed or in conversation.

I also loved reading the gamut of stories and opinions you guys posted on the message board.

Such was the case a couple weeks ago, following my post on free-range kids.

It's true, some other major media outlets took up the general subject in their op-eds,

etc.

More interestingly, I've stumbled across commentaries that cover everything from the value of tree climbing to the

no fuss, no guilt philosophy of 70s mothers.

As the title notes, drinking tab and locking us outside.

Sound familiar to anyone?

The most intriguing find, however, was an NPR article highlighting a children's adventure park in Wales,

inspired by the unofficial play havens of bombed out buildings during World War II.

The unconventional playground called simply The Land is apparently one of dozens in Europe,

with a small handful in the U.S., including one in Berkeley,

California, and a few in New York. The scene is probably every kid's dream. A few acres of zip lines,

hills, mud, fire, paints, chains, climbing structures, piping, tires, dens, hammers, and nails,

random boards, and all manner of, well, junk.

I mentioned the hours in New England that I spent in dumps as a kid a couple weeks ago,

and it's apparently an official and universal truth. Kids just like junk.

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