" The idea is that if you’re worrying, then you’re doing the right thing,” says Lawrence Balter, a professor at New York University and editor of the encyclopedia Parenthood in America. Worrying “is like a demonstration to yourself that you’re being responsible,” he says. It has become our national pastime. "

― Lenore Skenazy , Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry