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

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

by Lenore Skenazy

John Wiley & Sons | March 30, 2009 | Hardcover

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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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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Praise for Free-Range Kids

"Lenore Skenazy is a national hero."
-Mary Roach, author, Bonk and Stiff

"This book is a bubbly but potent corrective for the irrational fears that drive so many parents crazy. Skenazy is witty, perceptive, persuasive, and above all, sensible."
-Robert Needlman, M.D., coauthor, Dr. Spock''s Baby and Child Care, 8th Edition

"Free-Range Kids is the best kind of manifesto: smart, funny, rigorous, sane, impassioned, and bristling with common sense. If you''re a parent, or planning to become one, read this book. You have nothing to lose-apart from your anxiety."
-Carl Honoré, author, In Praise of Slowness and Under Pressure

"Even scaredy-cat parents like myself now have a how-to manual on overcomingirrational suspicions and, finally, differentiating between an axe murderer anda play date!"
-David Harsanyi, syndicated columnist and author, Nanny State

"Free-Range Kids makes the perfect baby shower gift."
-Nancy McDermott, parenting blogger, Spiked Online

"Moral insight without moralizing-how rare is that?"
-Amity Shlaes, author, The Forgotten Man

"Keep Free-Range Kids on your bedstand next to your Bible and the TV remote, and refer to as needed during the 11 o''clock news."
-Jordan Lite, news reporter, Scientific American Online

"Read this book-Mommy said you could."
-Penn Jillette, Penn & Teller

About the Author

LENORE SKENAZY is a syndicated columnist, humorist, and founder of Free-Range Kids. She has written for periodicals from Reader''s Digest to The Times (of London) to Mad magazine, and been a commentator on CNBC, the Food Network, and NPR. Her books include The Dysfunctional Family Christmas Songbook and Who''s the Blonde That Married What''s-His-Name? She lives with her husband and two sons in New York City.

Hardcover

256 Pages, 6.4 x 9 x 1 in

March 30, 2009

John Wiley & Sons

English


0470471948
9780470471944

From the Critics

"This book is a bubbly but potent corrective for the irrational fears that drive so many parents crazy. Skenazy is witty, perceptive, persuasive, and above all, sensible."
-Robert Needlman, M.D., coauthor, Dr Spock's Baby and Child Care, 8th Edition.

"Free-Range Kids is the best kind of manifesto: smart, funny, rigorous, sane, impassioned, and bristling with common sense. If you're a parent, or planning to become one, read this book. You have nothing to lose-apart from your anxiety."
-Carl Honoré, author, In Praise of Slowness and Under Pressure

"Lenore Skenazy is a national hero."
-Mary Roach, author, Bonk and Stiff

"Even scaredy-cat parents like myself now have a how-to manual on overcoming irrational suspicions and, finally, differentiating between an axe murderer and a play date!"
-David Harsanyi, syndicated columnist and author, Nanny State.

"Free-Range Kids makes the perfect baby shower gift."
-Nancy McDermott, parenting blogger, Spiked Online

"Moral insight without moralizing-how rare is that?"
-Amity Shlaes, author, The Forgotten Man

"Keep Free-Range Kids on your bedstand next to your bible and the TV remote, and refer to as needed during the 11 o''clock news."
-Jordan Lite, news reporter, Scientific American online

"Read this book-Mommy said you could."
-Penn Jillette, Penn & Teller

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