Letting Your Kids Free-Range in the World, Not on the Internet

A new generation of parents must stop trading emotional well-being for the illusion of physical safety.

Depending on which researcher you ask or what demo I’m trying to fit into at a party, I’m either a very young Gen Xer, an Xennial, or an elderly Millennial. Spanning two and a half generations gives me great insight. I am the Yoda of epochal quirks and politics, equally familiar with the rebel ennui of rough-and-tumble Xers and the helicoptered and avoc…