Play Outside: Rebuilding the free-range childhood in a supervised world
Lena Fairwood · narrated by Nora Crane
2026
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Children today rarely leave the yard without a plan, a phone, and a parent watching from the window. This looks at what got lost when unsupervised play disappeared, and how to bring some of it back without inviting real danger: age-appropriate freedoms, neighborhood habits that once made this easy, honest ways to weigh risk instead of just fearing it, and small steps that let a child roam a little farther each year. Grounded, encouraging, never preachy.
19 chapters
- 1What Is In Here4m
- 2Introduction7m
- 3Chapter 1: Remembering How to Let Go12m
- 4Chapter 2: What We Really Lost12m
- 5Chapter 3: Why We Hover Without Meaning To11m
- 6Chapter 4: The Garden Gate Test13m
- 7Chapter 5: Walking Their Own Way13m
- 8Chapter 6: The Bored and Beautiful Afternoon12m
- 9Chapter 7: Letting Them Climb the Tree14m
- 10Chapter 8: Knees Get Scraped13m
- 11Chapter 9: Making Friends With the Street12m
- 12Chapter 10: Screens Waiting at the Door12m
- 13Chapter 11: Rain, Mud, and Cold Noses12m
- 14Chapter 12: Letting Them Be in Charge11m
- 15Chapter 13: A Week of Outside12m
- 16Chapter 14: When to Worry and When to Call14m
- 17The Last Word4m
- 18About the Author1m
- 19Before You Close the Book1m
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