CAMPING LIBERATES KIDS AND PARENTS
May 20, 2021
3 minutes
LENORE SKENAZY
PARENTS WHO WAIT with their kids at the bus stop, cheer every soccer game, and can’t imagine a child walking home alone from a play date two blocks away go through some kind of looking glass/time warp/brain transplant when they pull into a campground. “Bye, kids! Be back in time for dinner. Don’t feed the bears!”
What is it about camping that turns 21st century worriers into parents with positively Spielbergian nonchalance?
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