No one is coming to save our kids but us.

Restore Childhood is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that makes documentary films, parent resources and books. This newsletter is where we report what institutions would rather parents never see, and where we give families the tools to take childhood back.

Who I am

I’m Natalya Murakhver, Restore Childhood’s co-founder and executive director. My family brought me from Odessa to Brooklyn when I was six, and New York City public schools gave me my English and my footing in a new country. I’m a mother of two daughters and a former New York City public school parent activist.

I directed 15 DAYS: The Real Story of America’s Pandemic School Closures, and I co-directed Uncancellable, a film about Maud Maron’s race for Manhattan district attorney.

What we cover

• School Closures: who shut America’s schools, who profited, and what it cost a generation.

• Gender: the evidence on youth gender medicine, and the families living with it.

• Girlhood: what the culture is doing to girls and young women.

• Lost Books: the great children’s books that went out of print, and where to find them.

• The Podcast: long conversations with the people in these stories.

Start here

1. They Quietly Let the Best Children’s History Books Go Out of Print

2. New Meta-Analysis Should End Discussion of Mask Mandates in Schools

3. The Dehumanization of America

4. Why Are Young Women Making Themselves Ugly?

5. UK Students Win £21 Million Over Covid Disruption

6. I Was a Girl Who Wanted to Be a Boy

7. Whatever Happened to Avery Jackson?

8. Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Daughter: “I Never Really Got the Education I Wanted”

Free and paid

Most of what we publish is free. Paid subscribers can watch 15 DAYS in full at any time, and every paid subscription funds our reporting and our films. Founding members join as Childhood Protectors.

You can also make a tax-deductible donation to Restore Childhood. To reach me, write to natalya@restorechildhood.com.

Thank you for reading.

Natalya