The modern internet era allows even more forms of elaborate child monitoring ... maybe parents who swathe their children in protective bubble-wrap do have a lot to answer for when it comes ...

But this cost-cutting comes at a price for the rest of us. As any human who was once a child knows, the entire point of getting something wrapped in bubble wrap is popping the little bubbles.

She’s an amazing child. It’s hard to gather all of the moments which have made her the girl she is today, but I’m reminded of the way she was a decade ago, in the hospital, literally covered in bubble ...

One is the “safetyism” of paranoid parenting, which injures bubble-wrapped children by excessively ... menacing (and worried about overbroad “child endangerment” laws), will not allow ...