Jen Murphy, Author at Concord Monitor

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In this April 6, 2018, photo, Amy Coulter, right, and her husband Mark, second left, play with their children at the Place Heritage Park in Salt Lake City. After Utah passed the country's first law legalizing so-called free-range parenting, groups from New York to Texas are pushing for similar steps to bolster the idea that supporters say is an antidote for anxiety-plagued parents and overscheduled children. Amy Coulter, a stay-at-home Utah mother, said she doesn't call herself a free-range parent. But she does avoid intervening with teachers on her older children's grades and encourages her children to use their own money to buy things at the grocery store. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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Visiting New York? Try a walk in a different park

by Jen Murphy Washington PostOctober 24, 2018

You’d be forgiven for thinking that New York’s Central Park isn’t exactly bucolic. After all, the most visited city park in America welcomed 42 million people in 2016. Magical in a state of early morning stillness, the 840-acre refuge quickly loses…