(FOX NEWS) – Mental health — many say it’s the crisis of our time, fueled by a cocktail of culprits from COVID-era isolation to social media. Some, however, speculate it starts much earlier and reining it in begins with parents.
“Children’s anxiety and depression have been going up, but they’ve been going up in parallel with something else, which is a lack of independence as kids’ lives have become more adult-run, adult-structured,” Lenore Skenazy, the New York mom who pioneered the “Free-Range Kids” movement, told Fox News Digital.
“They leave school, they’re in a car, they’re taken to a class, they’re taken to a game, it’s run by an adult. They come home, their homework is overseen by an adult. Their reading log is signed by an adult. Then they go to bed and then the next morning they’re taken again to school. There’s just very little time left for anything that we would call self-directed.”
