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2 Feb, 12 tweets, 6 min read
THREAD: In our 8th installment of Catching Up With Coddling, our series updating trends @JonHaidt and I covered in Coddling of the American Mind, we’re covering free play & childhood independence with help from @FreeRangeKids & @DianeRedleaf. 1/10

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Since 2018, studies have continued to confirm the positive effects of free play on childhood development. For example, Feb 2020 meta-analysis of 16 studies showed a variety of benefits of outdoor free play vs structured indoor play 2/10

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A 2020 study on an elementary school that implemented @LetGrowOrg Play Club where students participate in unstructured free play found that participants reported better moods & greater readiness to learn. 3/10

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Parents are hesitant to try free range parenting for fear that they’ll be labelled abusive or neglectful & reported to child services.

Fortunately, @LetGrowOrg has been working on legislation to clarify that free range parenting is NOT neglect 4/10
To that end in 2018 Utah unanimously passed the Free-Range Kids law. Similar bills have been introduced in CO, TX, ID, NV, OK, AR, & SC.

These bills often pass with bipartisan support. @LetGrowOrg expects many to become laws & for other states to pick up the issue. 5/10
ZERO TWEET: Continue reading this thread for more updates on free range parenting & childhood independence, OR click the link below to check out my January Book, Album, & Nerd Awards! 0/10

While COVID has been tough on everyone, after those who lost jobs or had serious compilations from the disease, parents of young children have been some of the hardest hit — working from home & taking care of children can feel like two simultaneous full-time jobs. 6/10
But many kids have adapted well to COVID. A survey by Peter Gray & Let Grow of 1,600 children & 1,600 parents showed that many children had been learning new skills & gaining independence. (Some findings pictured.) 7/10

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Many are becoming skeptical of CPS & the over-policing of “neglect.” 7.8million children are reported to CPS per year. According to one study, 37% of ALL children will be reported to CPS. That number rises to a staggering 53% of black children. 8/10

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After 7 editions of Catching Up With Coddling updating trends that have only gotten worse since the publication of COTAM, it’s a breath of fresh air to cover childhood independence, which has largely improved. Reasons for optimism are welcome in 2021! 9/10
I want to thank @FreeRangeKids & @DianeRedleaf again for helping @RynoWeiss & me research this piece. Follow them & @LetGrowOrg for the latest updates on free range parenting. 10/10
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If you want to check out our previous Catching Up With Coddling articles…. 11/10

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THREAD: For some fun TGIF fare let’s highlight some great @TheFIREorg gifs (TGIGIFs?) made by our AMAZING comms staff! (All of which are available through the gif button on Twitter & Facebook!) 1/8
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27 Jan
Today on ERI: @AdGo calls out @UCF for its attempt to fire tenured prof @CharlesNegy in a way that "will undermine the concept of academic freedom." (1/22)

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In Dec. 2019, students complained about Negy’s tweets, calling them racist & harmful; @UCF said they were #freespeech. In June 2020, students complained again. This time, @UCF solicited more complaints & opened an investigation. (2/22)

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14 Jan
For part 7 of our “Catching Up With ‘Coddling’” series, I sat down with @TheAtlantic’s @katejulian to take a long look at the role of parents in childhood anxiety, some potential causes, AND a promising new treatment. 1/15

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23 Dec 20
THREAD: So @vox writer @seanilling just said that ppl like me worry too much about #freespeech b/c “speech has never been freer.” Bizarre assertion in 2020. Speech was probably freer in 2005 before the "democratic recession" began, but it was certainly freer in, say, 2015. (1/65)
It’s important to address this because there’s been a trend in “nothing to see here,” thinly sourced stories claiming that nobody should really worry about free speech, Cancel Culture, or any of these themes. (2/65)
So, where to begin?

First, I'll start with the global picture, but don't worry, I'll get to my specialty, censorship in US higher education, later in this thread.

Bottomline: The situation for global #freespeech has gotten worse this year & over the past several years (3/65)
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16 Dec 20
6 hot tips before accusing me or @TheFIREorg of #freespeech hypocrisy for missing your pet case or cause:

1) Do a search on our website. Good chance we've already written on it.
2) If we JUST found out about it or it JUST happened, we are probably already looking into it diligently in addition to the *1500* other cases we got this year.
3) Ask yourself: "Shouldn't I do some basic research first before slamming folks? Might I be unfairly smearing a field involving serious & devoted professionals who do work I don’t even bother to look into?”
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14 Nov 20
So your standard is now “prove to me that you were forced out of your website/newspaper for ideological error, but my starting place is those concerned are [insert series of insults]?”
It doesn’t concern you that big time names like @mattyglesias @sullydish @bariweiss @ggreenwald all departing just since JULY are saying pretty much the same thing? (@JBennet & MANY others not included because they didn’t say anything or much)
I understand you are much more concerned about other aspects of the culture war. That’s fine. I am too. But you have a lot of friends & followers who have spent countless hours reporting on problems relating to unusually intense conformist norms coming from campus, like...
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