Are we raising adults, or kids?
The generation raised on screens and supervision is about to become the workforce, the electorate, and the parents. This thread asks what that childhood is building, and what it is quietly taking away, through the friction we removed and the researchers rethinking it.
Anchored to Ryan's The Friction Doctrine.
Tom LeNoble: Facebook Employee Number 57, the Adult in the Room, and Finding Unity
Facebook's 57th employee on the human side of the early days, the safety calls no one saw, and why polarization has only one way out.
With Tom LeNobleNicki Petrossi: Scrolling 2 Death, AI Companion Bots, and the Fight to Keep Kids Safe Online
The former social media exec now fighting Big Tech, and why keeping your kid off these platforms is an act of love, not deprivation.
With Nicki PetrossiLenore Skenazy: Free Range Kids and Why Overprotection Is the Real Danger
The subway ride that made her America's Worst Mom, and why the data was always on her side.
With Lenore SkenazyThere Is No Such Thing as a Fragile Child: What We Created When We Tried to Keep Kids Safe
We didn't raise a fragile generation. We renamed discomfort as danger, then removed the very experiences that make kids strong. The contrarian case for why there is no such thing as a fragile child. G
Solo essay by Ryan VetKevin Stinehart: Rebuilding Recess and Why Play Is a Developmental Need, Not a Want
What unstructured play actually builds, and how schools quietly engineered it out.
With Kevin StinehartThe Mothers Who Kept the Window Open: What We Lost When We Took Away the Village
The hardest part of modern motherhood isn't the work. It's that we now do it alone. The work was always going to be hard. The village was the part we could have kept. Generational futurist, USA Today
Solo essay by Ryan VetMichaeleen Doucleff: Hunt, Gather, Parent, Dopamine Kids, and What Modern Parenting Gets Wrong
Lessons from cultures that raise capable kids, and why the dopamine story you have heard is wrong.
With Michaeleen DoucleffThe Future of Parenting: The Impact of AI on Raising Gen Beta (kids born in 2026 and beyond)
How AI is fundamentally changing parenting — and what it means for the generation of children born into an AI-native world.
Solo essay by Ryan VetThe Rise of Fragility: What We Created When We Tried to Keep Kids Safe
Exploring how overprotection created a generation struggling with resilience — and what leaders need to understand about it.
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