Rolling Back Safetyism Requires Parents — and Policymakers
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Students board a school bus outside of Washington-Liberty High School in Arlington, Va., U.S., January 25, 2022.(Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
How can we expect young people to become responsible adults when we’re constantly sheltering them?
Former Senator Ben Sasse’s recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal exposes the damage that parents do by keeping their children indoors with nothing useful to do. In our work launching St. Dunstan’s Academy — a farm, trades, and classics boarding school for young men that we are building on a 176-acre farm in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains — we have encountered countless parents who recognize the seriousness of the problem.
But parents alone cannot transform the underlying cultural conditions that leave children passive and immobilized in front of screens. They need help from legislators.
