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how to raise safe, self-reliant children (without going nuts with worry)
xxii, 225 pages : illustrations, forms ; 23 cm
Free Range Kids has become a national movement, sparked by the response to the author's piece about allowing her 9-year-old ride the subway alone in New Yok City. 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, she 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.
The Fourteen Free-Range Commandments. Know when to worry: play dates and axe murderers, how to tell the difference ; Turn off the news: go easy on the law and order, too ; Avoid experts: who knew you were doing everything wrong? them! ; Boycott baby knee pads: and the rest of the kiddie safety-industrial complex ; Don't think like a lawyer: some risks are worth it ; Ignore the blamers: they don't know your kid like you do -- Eat chocolate: give Halloween back to the trick or treaters ; Study history: your ten year old would have been forging horseshoes (or at least delivering papers) ; Be worldly: why other countries are laughing at zee scaredy cat Americans ; Get braver: quit trying to control everything. It doesn't work anyway ; Relax: not every little thing you do has that much impact on your child's development ; Fail!: it's the new succeed ; Lock them out: Make them play or else! ; Listen to your kids: they don't want to be treated like babies (except the actual babies of course) -- The Free Range Guide to Life. Safe or not? : the A-to-Z review of everything you might be worried about ; Strangers with candy: even the folks who put the faces on milk cartons aren't too worried ; The other problem that has no name, and its solution.
Originally published in hardcover in 2009 as the title: Free range kids: giving our children the freedom we had without going nuts with worry.
Includes bibliographical references, Internet websites (pages 197-213) and index.
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