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Lenore Skenazy
Founder, Free-Range Kids · President, Let Grow
What Lenore explores
Lenore Skenazy is an author and safe-childhood advocate who co-founded Let Grow with psychologists Jonathan Haidt and Peter Gray. In 2008 she let her nine year old ride the New York City subway home alone, wrote a column about it, and within two days was defending herself on national television as America's Worst Mom.
Her work makes the case that childhood independence, not constant supervision, is what builds resilient adults. Through Let Grow she runs free school programs and has helped pass Reasonable Childhood Independence laws in a growing number of states.
Watch the episode Raising Adults Not Kids Lenore Skenazy: Free Range Kids and Why Overprotection Is the Real Danger
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In Lenore's words
It is very hard to stay sane in a culture that keeps saying that your kids are in constant danger.
Anxiety is when you think that you can't handle something. If you try you will fail, and if you fail you will never recover.
Too much safety, like almost too much anything, can backfire.
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