Lenore Skenazy
Journalist
Lenore Skenazy is the co-founder and president of Let Grow, a nonprofit promoting childhood independence and resilience. Ever since her column ”Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone” created a media firestorm, Lenore has been declaring that our kids are smarter, stronger and safer than our fearful culture gives them credit for. She is the author of Free-Range Kids, the book-turned-movement. Before that she spent 14 years as a reporter and columnist at the New York Daily News. At Let Grow, Lenore oversees school programs, an online community, and legislative efforts all fueled by the belief that when adults step back, kids step up.
Young people could even end up less anxiety-ridden, thanks to newfound confidence
Parents need to wean themselves off of the idea that they must be constantly available to their child and vice versa.
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Author Lenore Skenazy is tired of helicopter parents messing up their kids.
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At some point in the past thirty years it became taboo to let your kids play outside without supervision. What’s with that?
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Lenore Skenazy, who advocates for the free-range kids style of parenting, helps you learn to stop over-obsessing about your children.
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