Free-Range Kids, How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry)

Skenazy, Lenore

ISBN 10: 0470574755 / ISBN 13: 9780470574751

Published by Jossey-Bass, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Free-Range Kids, How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry)
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470574755
• ISBN 13: 9780470574751
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

LENORE SKENAZY is a syndicated columnist, humorist, and founder of Free-Range Kids. She has written for periodicals from Reader's Digest to The Times (of London) to Mad magazine, and been a commentator on CNBC, the Food Network, and NPR. Her books include The Dysfunctional Family Christmas Songbook and Who's the Blonde That Married What's-His-Name? She lives with her husband and two sons in New York City.