If you want your kids to thrive this summer, don’t just turn off their phones – open your front door, too | Lenore Skenazy

Children’s worlds have been shrinking and it’s harming their mental health. It’s time for parents to be brave and allow them a little independence In books and movies that pack a wallop you will usually find a “charged object” – an item crucial to the plot and freighted with emotion. The slipper in Cinderella. The apple in Adam and Eve. And today, in the story of what has gone wrong with childhood: the smartphone. It’s not that phones aren’t a real problem. We have all seen it. Kids glued to ...

By Lenore Skenazy