Free range kids: how to raise safe, self-reliant children (without going nuts with worry)

FREE RANGE KIDS has become a national movement, sparked by the incredible response to Lenore Skenazys piece about allowing her 9-year-old ride the subway alone in NYC. Parent groups argued about it, bloggers blogged and the media jumped all over it. This book debunks dangerous myths and advocates rational carefor safe and independent kids, using the Range Parenting Commandments, including: Know When to Worry (And Not) -- Playdates and Axe Murders: How to Tell the Difference Never Listen to Experts -- Who Says You Are Doing Everything Wrong. Them. Who knows less than you do about you and your kids. Them Eat Chocolate -- Give Halloween Back to the Trick or Treaters. There's never been a singlecase of a razor blade in an Apple in history. Never. Turn off the 24 Hour NewsTURN OFF THE 24 HOUR NEWS -- Go Easy on ‘Law 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. This book strikes a happy balance for safe and self-reliant kids who must ultimately live without us.Lenore Skenazy has created a media blitz since the publication of this title in hardcover last April. Shes been on NPR shows, including All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation on the TODAY show and twice on Dr. Phil, to great acclaim, has been on The View, writes a regular column for the on-line Huffington Post, appears on dozens of other on-line, national print and broadcast radioand tv media, and got so much attention as the worlds worst mom that she started a blog called Free Range Kids to explain her parenting philosophy of how to have safe kids without going nuts with anxiety and paranoia. Launched in April of 2008 (www.freerangekids.com) has already attracted several hundred thousand readers and continues to grow. A graduate of Yale and Columbia, Skenazy lives in New York City with her husband and two very find, well-behaved, smart and interesting pre-teen sons.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-57475-1
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 28/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés