Mindful Mama: Raising Kind, Confident Kids Without Losing Your Cool | Parenting Strategies For Big Emotions & More How to Let Our Kids Grow - Lenore Skenazy [140]
Hunter talks to Lenore Skenazy about How to Let Our Kids Grow.
Do you worry about giving your kids more independence? Well, protecting them too much might be doing more harm than good. In this episode I talk to Lenore Skenazy, author of Free Range Kids about her new Let Grow Movement and the vital importance of free play for our kids.
Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. We lose our perspective because of fear-mongering media stories 2. Keeping them always “safe” may be keeping them from growing strong, resilient, and emotionally balanced. 3. The best way to promote independence is if we all do it TOGETHER. Lenore has a great resource to do this!
Lenore Skenazy is president of the new non-profit Let Grow, and founder of the Free-Range Kids movement.
Ten years ago, after her column "Why I Let My 9 Year Old Ride the Subway Alone" landed her on every talk show from The Today Show to Dr. Phil, Skenazy founded the book and blog “Free-Range Kids” to say that kids are NOT in constant danger. Give them a little more freedom and everyone wins.
Now she lectures internationally and has been profiled everywhere from The New York Times to The New Yorker to The Daily Show! A journalist herself, Lenore has written for everyone from The Wall Street Journal to Mad Magazine. Yep. Mad.
Her reality show “World’s Worst Mom,” airs on Discovery Life (from time to time, late at night, in re-runs).
In March, Utah became the first state to pass a "Free-Range Parenting Law," guaranteeing parents the right to give their kids some unsupervised time. The goal of Let Grow is to make it easy and normal to give kids back their independence.
A Yale grad, Lenore lives in New York City with her husband and beloved computer. Her sons have (safely) flown the coop.
Links: https://letgrow.org/
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