Free-Range Kids
Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry
By Lenore Skenazy; Lenore Skenazy
(Jossey-Bass, Hardcover, 9780470471944, 225pp.)
Publication Date: April 2009
Categories: Parenting - General
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Description
"FREE RANGE KIDS" has become a national movement, sparked by the incredible response to Lenore Skenazys piece about allowing her 9-year-old ride the subway alone in NYC. Parent groups argued about it, bloggers, blogged, spouses became uncivil with each other, and the media jumped all over it. A lot of parents today, Skenazy says, see no difference between letting their kids walk to school and letting them walk through a firing range. Any risk is seen as too much risk. But if you try to prevent every possible danger or difficult in your childs everyday life, that child never gets a chance to grow up. We parents have to realize that the greatest risk of all just might be trying to raise a child who never encounters choice or independence.











