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It’s Hard to Get My Kid Outside

May 5, 2026
It’s Hard to Get My Kid Outside

The social commentator Matthew Yglesias posted a note about his son’s childhood on Twitter yesterday —  under an amazing (and, to me, infuriating and heartbreaking) graph from the Institute for Family Studies:

Wrote Yglesias:

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