Lenore Skenazy

And it's a recognition that kids are so afraid of messing up because they're watched all the time.

So there's high stakes.

You're always being judged.

You're always being protected.

And you never have a chance to see how much you can do.

So you finally just go, well, why do it?

I'll look stupid.

Maybe somebody puts a reel on Instagram.

Maybe I feel bad about myself.

Maybe I'll get hurt.

And so if Nike is recognizing a pervasive passivity in kids,

even wanting to play, I mean, Nike is about playing, right?

Then something's gone awry.

And so if you're asking what's the problem in the culture, it's that we're taking the childhood, the child out of childhood and replacing it with adult-oriented, adult-run activities and adult-supervised activities to the point where kids are like, okay, it's yours.

Tell me what to do.

I'll do it.

But otherwise, why?

yeah um first of all it's not reckless to give your kids some freedom i would argue that it's reckless not to give them some freedom for the reasons we've already discussed but i recognize that it is hard in a culture that says like there are there are schools that won't let the kids get off the bus at the end of the day unless a parent is there to walk them home and it could be two blocks it could be two houses i was i was actually giving a talk in

I have no idea where I was.

But the audience members told me that their school, the bus stops at each person's house and drops them off at the end of the driveway.