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Free-Range Kids
- How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In the newly revised and expanded second edition of Free-Range Kids, New York columnist-turned-movement leader Lenore Skenazy delivers a compelling and entertaining look at how we got so worried about everything our kids do, see, eat, read, wear, watch, and lick - and how to bid a whole lot of that anxiety goodbye. With real-world examples, advice, and a gimlet-eyed look at the way our culture forces fear down our throats, Skenazy describes how parents and educators can step back so kids step up. Positive change is faster, easier, and a lot more fun than you'd believe. This is the book that has helped millions of American parents feel brave and optimistic again-and the same goes for their kids.
Using research, humor, and feisty common sense, the book shows:
- How parents can reject the media message, "Your child is in horrible danger!"
- How schools can give students more independence - and what happens when they do. (Hint: Teachers love it.)
- How everyone can relax and successfully navigate a judge-y world filled with way too many warnings, scolds, and brand new fears
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- Anika
- 19-05-2024
A mothers excuses for her own lack of research
While the overall premise of this book, give your kids more autonomy, is a good one. I was overall disappointed in this audio book. The author begins by explaining that she is only writing this as she became the centre of a media storm after giving her child some autonomy. she then proceeds to badmouth every other parenting book or child development program.
Yes, our children need us to trust them but that doesn't mean that we also get to ignore research and developments in neuroscience. Why can't we do both?
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- R. S. T.
- 02-03-2023
Pump yourself up by mocking others
Constant criticism of parents and the way they choose to parent with limited constructive or productive insight into how or why the author’s approach has any value.
I get it, you let your kid on the subway by themselves… I didn’t buy the book to have that anecdote reframed and repeated back at me for eight hours straight.
Painfully smug content delivered with a raging soccer mum narration.
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- Chrystal Meinhardt
- 04-02-2022
Solid advice
The advice in this is solid and evidence based. The conversational language used to give it is tiresome and makes it too long. Still worth it for those of us looking to raise our kids with more freedom and independence.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-11-2021
can't stand the lady's voice
not good at all, not worth it like the other review said I feel the same
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