A lecture by Lenore Skenazy, founder of the book, blog and movement, "Free-Range Kids." Skenazy is a big city newspaper columnist (16 years total at the New York Daily News and New York Sun) who has written for everyone from The Times of London to Mad Magazine -- yes, that Mad Magazine. She also spent several years on TV, first at CNBC and then at The Food Network. And before all THAT she got her B.A. from Yale and M.A. from Columbia.
Everything changed in 2008, when she wrote a column about letting her 9-year-old take the subway alone. Two days later she found herself on “The Today Show,” MSNBC, Fox News and NPR – and then on media worldwide -- defending herself against charges she’s “America’s Worst Mom.” (But Google that and there she is, for 35 pages.) She launched the blog, “Free-Range Kids” and went on to write the book by the same name, to explain her parenting philosophy: Safety is good! Car seats, seat belts, helmets – great! But our kids do NOT need a security detail every time they leave the house.
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