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Were you a "free-range kid?" Free-Range Kids are largely left alone to explore the world independently. That includes trying things out, making mistakes, finding joy in exploration and experimentation, getting hurt on occasion, surviving those occasions, learning from errors, and growing up confident and competent in handling oneself. We boomers were free-range kids. Gone after school until sunset and dinner time, off doing who knows what, who knows where, with whomever we pleased.  Riding bikes miles away and speeding downhill in t-shirts, jeans, and flip-flops with no helmets (bike helmets weren't yet a thing; we wouldn't have worn them anyway). Cimbing across tall hills, shooting BB guns at soda cans, throwing rocks and clods of dirt at each other (and getting hit, painfully, on occasion). Exploring underground rain tunnels and coming up out of manholes, scaling tall school buildings after dark, hiking cross-country in Boy Scouts with only a map and compass, etc. A...

Were you a "free-range kid?" Free-Range Kids are largely left alone to explore the world independently. That includes trying things out, making mistakes, finding joy in exploration and experimentation, getting hurt on occasion, surviving those occasions, learning from errors, and growing up confident and competent in handling oneself. We boomers were free-range kids. Gone after school until sunset and dinner time, off doing who knows what, who knows where, with whomever we pleased.  Riding bikes miles away and speeding downhill in t-shirts, jeans, and flip-flops with no helmets (bike helmets weren't yet a thing; we wouldn't have worn them anyway). Cimbing across tall hills, shooting BB guns at soda cans, throwing rocks and clods of dirt at each other (and getting hit, painfully, on occasion). Exploring underground rain tunnels and coming up out of manholes, scaling tall school buildings after dark, hiking cross-country in Boy Scouts with only a map and compass, etc. A...

Were you a "free-range kid?" Free-Range Kids are largely left alone to explore the world independently. That includes trying things out, making mistakes, finding joy in exploration and experimentation, getting hurt on occasion, surviving those occasions, learning from errors, and growing up confident and competent in handling oneself. We boomers were free-range kids. Gone after school until sunset and dinner time, off doing who knows what, who knows where, with whomever we pleased.  Riding bikes miles away and speeding downhill in t-shirts, jeans, and flip-flops with no helmets (bike helmets weren't yet a thing; we wouldn't have worn them anyway). Cimbing across tall hills, shooting BB guns at soda cans, throwing rocks and clods of dirt at each other (and getting hit, painfully, on occasion). Exploring underground rain tunnels and coming up out of manholes, scaling tall school buildings after dark, hiking cross-country in Boy Scouts with only a map and compass, etc. A...