Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts With Worry

About this book

FREE RANGE KIDS has become a national movement sparked by the incredible response to Lenore Skenazys 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 childs 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.