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, Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry
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Author: Skenazy, Lenore
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780470471944
Details:
Author: Skenazy, Lenore
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 256
Release Date: 20-04-2009
Part Number: 2MD6NZ0002A3
Package Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.0 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780470471944
