Lenore Skenazy
Autor de Free-Range Kids, How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry)
Obras de Lenore Skenazy
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Skenazy, Lenore
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1959-11-27
- Género
- female
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
- Ocupaciones
- journalist
Miembros
Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Miembros
- 450
- Popularidad
- #54,506
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 19
- ISBNs
- 16
- Idiomas
- 1
This is the book written by America's worst mom. She got that label for allowing her 9 year old son to ride the NYC subway alone. The shock. The horror. Think of the children!
She touches and writes about a feeling I've been having in how we are basing our decisions on irrational fears. These fears are twisting us to reach for impossible and contradictory standards.
(She focuses much more on child-rearing. You can read other reviews in here about that. I'm going to focus on the underlying fear in this review.)
We are putting our trust in logos (corporations) and government ... and getting mad when they fail us. Maybe we should just trust ourselves and each other?
Hey, I grew up with people telling me about "Stranger Danger". But as I grew older, I found that world fraught with Stranger Danger is indeed strange ... and wonderful. It's not that the world is a scary place. It's that we are scared of the world.
Part of me was jealous of the free range kids who have such a sense of accomplishment and lack of fear. It's been a long road for me but I'm getting there.
Now, I seek that hole in the wall restaurant instead of the safe corporate neon signed restaurant. I've traveled around the world without a tour group. And the wife who is sleeping next to me while I write this review? I met her online.
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