Free-Range Kids, How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry)
Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Parenting
| Author: | Lenore Skenazy | ISBN: | 9780470497968 |
| Publisher: | Wiley | Publication: | May 26, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Jossey-Bass | Language: | English |
| Author: | Lenore Skenazy |
| ISBN: | 9780470497968 |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Publication: | May 26, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Jossey-Bass |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
