Are Your Kids Free Range? with Lenore Skenazy
Imagine being labeled America’s worst mother just because you made the conscious decision to allow your child to experience some independence. If you haven’t heard Lenore Skenazy’s story or read her book Free Range Kids, today’s episode is a great introduction to the Free Range Children and Grow Wild movements.
👉 Lenore shares
- The incredible story that catapulted her into this movement.
- Some of the most rewarding outcomes she has seen in her own life and in the families she has worked with
- What free-range parenting really is
- The biggest myths about it
- How people can start incorporating its principles into their own parenting style
- Her response to the critics of free-range parenting arguing that it is irresponsible or even dangerous
- The biggest challenges that parents face when trying to give their kids more independence
- How parents can overcome those obstacles
- How you can incorporate safety into free-range parenting
- About the "Let Grow" initiative
- What she hopes to see from parents and families adopting this style in the years to come
Learn More About Free Range Kids
Website Book Learn more about Let Grow
👉 Guest Details
Lenore Skenazy is “America’s Worst Mom.” (Google it!)
The New York City columnist-turned-reality TV show host got that title after letting her 9-year-old son take the subway, alone. In response to the enormous media blowback, she founded the book and blog, “Free-Range Kids,” which launched the anti-helicopter parenting movement.
Her feisty belief that our kids are safer and smarter than our culture gives them credit for has landed her on many talk shows.
She has lectured internationally, from Microsoft Headquarters to DreamWorks to the Bulgarian Happiness Festival (a real thing!), and she has written for everyone from The Wall Street Journal to Mad Magazine. And she’s a graduate of Yale.
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