Lenore Skenazy

And of course, some of that's good.

You know, togetherness is good.

Kids need a strong bond.

But, you know, too much is driving us all crazy.

There was the Surgeon General report from 2021, which a lot of you probably saw.

It said that kids are more depressed and anxious than ever, right?

And then he came out with a report like two years later, and it said parents are more depressed and anxious than ever.

I'm like, yeah, because we need our space, right?

The olden days were not perfect.

But back then, there were three worlds that were absolutely perfectly balanced.

There was the kid world, filled with, you know, bikes and adventures and playing.

And the adult world, so boring.

People were always talking about politics and who was having a procedure.

A lot of polyps, polyps, polyps, polyps.

And then there was...

Then there was family world, where everyone was together, like on vacation or at dinner.

But now they've all been sort of mashed up together, and especially since phones, because now, even when parents aren't physically with their kids, they can be texting and talking and tracking to them, so the worlds are not in balance anymore.

Fortunately, the reason I'm here is that there is a sort of easy way to start teasing the worlds apart again, and it just begins with a little bit of deprogramming.

So here goes.

We have to realize that we've been sort of brainwashed into believing that any time our kids aren't with us, they're in terrible danger of being kidnapped by a guy in a white van looking for his puppy, or ...