| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780470471944 | | Publisher: Jossey-Bass | | Publish Date: 4/20/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 210597581 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.75H x 6.5L x 1T |
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| | | 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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Over-parenting is considered something of an epidemic in the 21st century, and this humorous guide tells how to find balance between letting kids run into the road with hatchets and assuming the absolute worst is going to happen to children if they are unattended for a moment. Using scads of stories and anecdotes, statistics and research, the authors guide anxious parents through the ropes of raising "free-range" kids. Humorous commandments such as "Boycott Baby Knee Pads" and "Lock Them Out" are followed by sound advice and resources.
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