Our Obsession With Safety Is Harming Our Kids
If your primary parenting goal is to keep your child safe, what kind of an adult do you think you’re raising?
Kate Tuttle
contributor
President of the National Book Critics Circle, Kate Tuttle writes about books for the Boston Globe. Her reviews have also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Salon, the Washington Post, and Newsday. Her essays on raising children, race and politics, and coming to terms with her own 1970s childhood, have appeared in Dame, The Rumpus, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. Follow her @katekilla
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