Free range kids how to raise safe, self-reliant children (without going nuts with worry)
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...
| Main Author: | Skenazy, Lenore. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Francisco, CA :
Jossey-Bass,
c2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
| 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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| Physical Description: |
xxi, 225 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-213) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780470471944 0470471948 9780470574751 |
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