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Right now, childhood is intensely meh. Maybe you read the recent report in The Journal of Pediatrics that said that as kids' independence and free play have gone down, their anxiety and depression have been going up. Or maybe you picked up Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation and read about how kids need to return to a play-based childhood or else fall off the mental health cliff. Perhaps you saw the surgeon general's report about how kids are utterly miserable—or his newer report about how parents are utterly miserable.
