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Free-range kids: how parents and teachers can let go and let grow Ebook

Free-Range Kids, Second Edition is a packed with practical advice to help parents and educators coach their children to independence and self-sufficiency. The book debunks dangerous myths and advocates for ration care with the Free-Range Parenting Commandments. Skenazy directs readers  to see the difference between letting their kids walk to school and letting them walk through a firing range in a society that often sees those two things as synonymous. Using research studies, humor, and tried-and-true parenting advice, Skenazy will help parents relax, listen to their kids, and navigate parenting in a world with anxiety-inducing headlines and constant reruns of Law & Order. This new edition includes updated pop-culture references throughout, eliminates outdated information, includes new information about free-range parenting online, and provides strategies for implementing free-range style teaching in classrooms. 

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Lenore Skenazy (New York, NY), a journalist by trade, spent 14 years at the New York Daily News as a reporter-turned-opinion columnist, and two more at The New York Sun. In 2008, after her column Why I Let My 9 Year Old Ride the Subway Alone landed her on several national talk shows from The Today Show to Dr. Phil, Lenore founded the book and blog Free-Range Kids. In addition to her own reality TV show, Worlds Worst Mom, Lenore has lectured internationally from Microsoft to DreamWorks to the Sydney Opera House, and has been profiled everywhere from The New York Times to The New Yorker. She also founded the nonprofit organization Let Grow with the goal of turning agreement into action, making it easy and normal to give kids the same kid of freedom older generations had growing up. Lenore received her B.A. from Yale and her masters degree from Columbia.

Year

2021

Format

Ebook

Author

Lenore Skenazy

Publisher

John Wiley