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Lenore Skenazy. Free-Range Kids
Table of Contents
Guide
Pages
FREE-RANGE KIDS. How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow
Foreword
Introduction to the Introduction
The Actual Introduction Already
Commandment 1Know When to Worry Play Dates and Axe Murderers: How to Tell The Difference
REAL WORLD. What's Wrong with Our Society? The First Thing I Did Was Disconnect the Cable
Going Free Range
Commandment 2Turn off the News Go Easy On The Law and Order, Too
REAL WORLD. The First Thing I Did Was Disconnect the Cable
Going Free Range
Commandment 3Avoid Experts Who Knew You Were Doing Everything Wrong? … . Them!
REAL WORLD. Baby Magazine Madness
Going Free Range
Commandment 4Boycott Baby Knee Pads And the Rest of the Kiddie Safety-Industrial Complex
REAL WORLD “Baby Whatever” Videos—What a Freaking Scam!
Going Free Range
Commandment 5Don't Think Like a Lawyer Some Risks Are Worth It
REAL WORLD. Three Bumps in Two Years Is Not a Rash of Injuries
Going Free Range
Commandment 6Ignore the Blamers They Don't Know Your Kid Like You Do
REAL WORLD. My Son Was Picked up by the Cops
Going Free Range
Commandment 7Eat Chocolate Give Halloween Back to the Trick-or-Treaters
REAL WORLD. Discuss with Neighbors What Treats Are Appropriate
Going Free Range
Commandment 8Study History Your Ten-Year-Old Would Have Been Forging Horseshoes ( or at Least Delivering Papers)
REAL WORLD. The Old Man Beat Me Because I Didn't Like to Steal
Going Free Range
Commandment 9Be Worldly Why Other Countries Are Laughing at Zee Scaredy-Cat Americans
REAL WORLD. After a Week of Spying, I Finally Relaxed
Going Free Range
Commandment 10Get Braver Quit Trying to Control Everything. It Doesn't Work Anyway
REAL WORLD. I Know a Six-Year-Old Who Still Rides in a Buggy
Going Free Range
Commandment 11Relax Not Every Little Thing You Do Has That Much Impact On Your Child's Development
REAL WORLD. If You're Sick of Playing Patty-Cake …
Going Free Range
Commandment 12Fail! Easy! Educational! Fun!
REAL WORLD. Sometimes You Win … By Losing
BONUS STORY FOR EVEN MORE PERSPECTIVE
Going Free Range
Commandment 13Lock Them Out Make Them Play—Or Else!
REAL WORLD. We Thought of Everything, Including Boards with Nails in Them to Fight off Alligators
Going Free Range
Commandment 14Listen to Your Kids They Don't Want to Be Treated Like Babies ( Unless They Are Still Crawling, Etc.)
REAL WORLD. Every Time I See a Kid with a Sucker or a Scarf, My Sympathetic Nervous System Goes Crazy
Going Free Range
Commandment 15Take the Long View Wasting Time Is Not a Waste Of Time
REAL WORLD
Commandment 16Trust Strangers Even the Folks Who Put the Faces on the Milk Cartons Aren't Too Worried
REAL WORLD. The Whole Time He Was in There I Was Sweating
Going Free Range
Commandment 17De-Fang Anxiety Independence Is the New Prozac
REAL WORLD
Going Free-Range
Commandment 18Embrace (Some) Tech We All Scream for iScreens
REAL WORLD
Going Free-Range
Calling All EducatorsWhat Happens at School Doesn't Stay at School
REAL WORLD
Discovering My Neighborhood
Going Free-Range
ConclusionThe Other Problem That Has No Name—And Its Solution
Acknowledgments
Sources
Introduction
Commandment 1: Know When to Worry
Commandment 2: Turn off the News
Commandment 3: Avoid Experts
Commandment 4: Boycott Baby Knee Pads
Commandment 5: Don't Think Like a Lawyer
Commandment 6: Ignore the Blamers
Commandment 7: Eat Chocolate
Commandment 8: Study History
Commandment 9: Be Worldly
Commandment 10: Get Braver
Commandment 11: Relax
Commandment 12: Fail!
Commandment 13: Lock Them Out
Commandment 14: Listen to Your Kids
Commandment 15: Take the Long View
Commandment 16: Trust Strangers
Commandment 17: De-Fang Anxiety
Commandment 18: Embrace (Some) Tech
Calling All Educators
Conclusion
About the Author
Resources and Connecting. Follow Lenore
Speaking Engagements
Legislation and Advocacy
School Programs
Discussion Guides
THE FREE-RANGE KIDS CARD
Index
WILEY END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
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“Lenore and I bonded over crows and kids. This book is only about one of those, but it's still great. Hopefully she'll get around to a book on crows someday.”
—Dax Shepard, host, Armchair Expert
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“Well, how is that the ‘exact same experience’ if it's different?” I demanded. “Besides, he was safe! That's why I let him go, you fear-mongering hypocrite, preaching independence while warning against it! And why do TV shows automatically put you guys on, anyway? Isn't it because of professional second-guessers like you that us parents have stopped trusting our guts?”
Well, I didn't get all of that out, exactly. I did get out a very cogent, “Gee, um … ” but anyway, it didn't even matter, because as soon as we left the set, the phone rang. It was MSNBC. Could I be there in an hour? Yep. Then came Fox News. Could I come that afternoon? And MSNBC again. If I came today would I promise to come on again over the weekend? And suddenly, weirdly, I found myself at that place you always hear about: The center of a media storm. It was kind of fun but kind of terrifying, too, because everyone was weighing in on my parenting skills. Reporters queried from China, Israel, Australia, Malta. (Malta! An island! Who's stalking the kids there? Captain Hook?) TV stations across Canada threw together specials. Radio shows across America ate it up, as did parenting groups and PTAs. Newspapers, blogs, magazines from The Economist to Funny Times—even the BBC had me on.
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