Letting kids be kids seems more and more important to me over time. Our safetyism and paranoia about children is catastrophic on way more levels than most people realize. I believe all these effects are very large:

This should be thought of as part of the Cost of Thriving Index discussion, and the fertility discussions as well. Before I return to the more general debate, I wanted to take care of this aspect first. It's [...]

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(02:31) Current Insanity Levels

(09:50) The Result of This

(12:15) Some Progress on Letting Kids Be Kids

(13:10) CPS Cares

(19:52) Panopticon

(22:37) They Even Close Playgrounds

(24:08) How Did Things Get This Bad?

(28:11) Let Kids be Adults

(30:12) Treat Kids Like People

(32:00) Lowering the Burden

(35:05) Screens

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