Youth Anxiety

In his best-selling book, The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt contrasts Baby Boomers and Gen X children to younger generations.  Those born more than fifty years ago experienced a play-based childhood filled with human interaction and physical activity in which parents permitted kids to play out of their sight as long as they returned home when […]

Lingering Holiday

The Hallmark Christmas channel has endless stories featuring a girl named Holly or Noel and a boy named Nick or Chris who, after one of them achieves great success in the big city, returns to their hometown of Winterland or Candyville where they get reunited during the holiday season.  The reunion usually involves a jolly […]