Advice for anxious parents
March 28, 2026
Parents today are scared. A new survey from the Institute for Family Studies found that the average parent will not let their kids roam more than 100 yards from home until they are 8 or 9 years old.
Of course it's natural to want to protect kids from danger. The problem is that our culture has trained parents to see danger everywhere they look. How can they overcome fear-based parenting and give kids back some independence and free play?
