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Learning to let go: Experts warn helicopter parenting is behind kids' anxiety epidemic

FOX News

Lenore Skenazy's'free-range' parenting style is the basis of a new Utah law; she shares insight on'The Next Revolution.' Is there a "simple fix" to help quell kids' anxieties in an increasingly fast-paced and interconnected world? With the rise of the electronic world – social media, cable TV, 24-hour news – parents have adopted ways to protect children from unsafe spaces or disturbing content that makes kids more afraid or grow up too fast. But parents may have overcompensated, some argue. Perhaps parents led kids to their gradual decline in independence in recent decades, leading psychologist Dr. Camilo Ortiz and "Let Grow" nonprofit director Lenore Skenazy to ask "what if the problem was simply that kids are growing up so overprotected that they're scared of the world?" "If so, the solution would be simple, too," the duo wrote in a recent New York Times guest essay. "Start letting them do more things on their own."