It's Time for Free-Range Parenting to Enter the Digital Realm - GeekDad

by ParentCo. February 23, 2015

It's a great big world out there, both physically AND on the internet. Shouldn't we be facilitating our children's safe, independent exploration of both?

"But the free-range movement always stops when we get to the digital world. It wants to get kids out and about outdoors, which is laudable, but the philosophy is first and most about independence. And there is no place like the internet where children are far from free to roam."

It's Time for Free-Range Parenting to Enter the Digital Realm - GeekDad.


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