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Lenore Skenazy is frustratingly brilliant: she is teaching us all something that we should already know. Like some kind of paradoxical archaeologist of the present, she is revealing an idea that everyone in human history knew, but has been lost in current times. That astonishingly obvious but apparently forgotten or denied concept is that kids need to be kids, and the only way for them to learn their world and become adults is by us actually letting them do that. "FREE-RANGE Kids" is all about her experiences with raising her son and the lessons we can all take to heart about raising our kids to be self- and world-aware. Her premise- that the best way to teach our kids how to deal with the world is to let them experience it first-hand, as people have done for all of human history- hits the mark. Highly recommend her book.
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Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry
stark0311, May 21, 2009
Lenore Skenazy is frustratingly brilliant: she is teaching us all something that we should already know. Like some kind of paradoxical archaeologist of the present, she is revealing an idea that everyone in human history knew, but has been lost in current times. That astonishingly obvious but apparently forgotten or denied concept is that kids need to be kids, and the only way for them to learn their world and become adults is by us actually letting them do that. "FREE-RANGE Kids" is all about her experiences with raising her son and the lessons we can all take to heart about raising our kids to be self- and world-aware. Her premise- that the best way to teach our kids how to deal with the world is to let them experience it first-hand, as people have done for all of human history- hits the mark. Highly recommend her book.(2 of 5 readers found this comment helpful)