Lenore Skenazy

And, and it actually, you know, weirdly enough, there was a study done of people who tell their kids, you know, the world's a dog eat dog place and don't be a patsy.

And everybody's going to try and take advantage of you versus, you know, most people are decent and you can trust and default to trust.

And somehow they studied these two different groups of kids for years, like into their middle age.

And they found that the ones that,

The parents who raised the kids saying like, everybody's bad, beware, don't let your guard down, were doing it out of love.

They thought that they were protecting their kids.

But in fact, those kids in middle age had worse relationships, worse health, and less professional success.

So I'm not exactly sure why, but you might as well default to trust.

Yeah, well first of all, I mean cars have existed for a long time and

Boy, in kindergarten, we were taught, you know, the school felt it incumbent upon itself to teach, look left, look right, look left again.

I have no idea why we had to look left and right and left again.

I just look left and right and go.

But I would teach them that because Mrs. Tiksinski taught me that.

And so far I'm alive.

Crosswalks are good if you can convince a neighborhood to put one in.

I guess you talk to your, you know, your city council or whatever you have there.

But you can't let

perfect be the enemy of the good, I guess, which is that if you have two kids together and they're holding hands and they're both looking left, right, left, and there's no cars coming, they're listening for it and they're looking for it, they're humans.

They can cross the street.

One thing that Let Grow has done is that if you go to our site, letgrow.org, I wish I had it with me, but we have a little card.