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Cargando... Free-Range Kids, How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry) (2009 original; edición 2010)por Lenore Skenazy (Autor)
Información de la obraFree-Range Kids, How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry) por Lenore Skenazy (2009)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I really enjoyed this book and I think it portrays a much needed alternative to the alarmist parenting culture in our country. The tone was light, conversational, and often funny (I laughed out loud many a time). Mostly it was a great opportunity to consider many of the worries we have as parents and to decide which ones are valid, and which ones are less so - the ones that make us so needlessly paranoid that we are stifling the independence of our kids and not allowing them to take any risks at all. Great read - I recommend to everyone! Written by a woman dubbed "The America's Worst Mom", the author encourages parents to lighten up and raise our kids to have some of the same experiences we were alllowed to have as children, such as walking to school, chores and jobs, unsupervised outdoor play. She claims that our "helicopter parenting" is hurting our children by creating fear, and not allowing today's generation to learn how to cope with failure, anxiety and pressures of daily living. It is a light and often funny read, with many stories and statistics to back up her points. Written by a woman dubbed "The America's Worst Mom", the author encourages parents to lighten up and raise our kids to have some of the same experiences we were alllowed to have as children, such as walking to school, chores and jobs, unsupervised outdoor play. She claims that our "helicopter parenting" is hurting our children by creating fear, and not allowing today's generation to learn how to cope with failure, anxiety and pressures of daily living. It is a light and often funny read, with many stories and statistics to back up her points. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
FREE RANGE KIDS has become a national movement, sparked by the incredible response to Lenore Skenazy?s piece about allowing her 9-year-old ride the subway alone in NYC. 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, Skenazy 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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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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