Free-Range Kids
Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts With Worry
What is Free-Range Kids about?
Journalist Lenore Skenazy makes the case that everyday parenting has become distorted by exaggerated perceptions of risk, and that children lose important developmental experiences when they are constantly supervised. The book combines crime and safety statistics with reader letters and practical routines meant to help parents give kids more independence.
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We convinced ourselves that childhood is more dangerous than ever, right as crime hit historic lows. Lenore Skenazy: Free Range Kids and Why Overprotection Is the Real Danger Books like Free-Range Kids
Publication details
- Publisher
- Jossey-Bass
- Published
- 2009
- Pages
- 225
- ISBN-13
- 9780470471944
