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Back to EpisodesWe're Protecting Kids From the Wrong Things: The Real Case for Letting Your Kids Get Hurt, Be Bored, and Figure It Out
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We won't let kids walk to the park alone, but we'll hand them an unsupervised portal to the entire internet. We bubble-wrap them from scraped knees and then wonder why they can't handle hard emotions. If that contradiction bothers you too, this episode is going to feel like a long exhale.
Inspired by Jonathan Haidt's "The Anxious Generation," Robbie breaks down the overprotection paradox — and why the thing we think is keeping kids safe might actually be what's making them fragile.
Topics covered: why kids are physically tougher than we think and emotionally less equipped for the online world than we realize, the concept of anti-fragility and what it means for how we raise our kids, why boredom and risk are actually essential to child development, and how to find the balance between protecting your kids and accidentally raising someone who can't handle real life.
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