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Free-range kids, how parents and teachers can let go and let grow, Lenore Skenazy

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Free-range kids, how parents and teachers can let go and let grow, Lenore Skenazy

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Free-range kids

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Lenore Skenazy

Sub title

how parents and teachers can let go and let grow

Summary

Free-range kids has become a national movement, sparked by the incredible response to Lenore Skenazy's 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 child's 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

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