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It's not ONLY about the phone. We've taken away the very things our tweens need to grow, handed them a shiney hand-held device, and wondered why they're on it so much. Let's give parents the support they need to meet their tween's biological needs as they grow into young adults.

Picking up where Odgers leaves off, learn how parenting tweens can be easier, so we reduce the stress parents feel.

There’s a chart making the rounds that should stop every parent of a tween cold... The Institute for Family Studies just published data from the 2025 Anxious Generation Survey of American Family Culture, and the numbers are — there’s really no other word for it — alarming. -At age 10, 58% of American children cannot leave their yard unaccompanied. -At 11, that drops to 53%. -At 12 — twelve — 44% still can’t venture past the fence line on their own. -And the grand finale: by a