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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