Free Range Kids
Article here.
Lenore Skenazy's site is here.
And excerpt:
"Recently, as dusk became dark and he was not yet home, I wondered if I had made a mistake. Where was my boy?! My heart began to race as I thought of every horrible thing that might have happened to him. I jumped in the car and as I started down the street I saw the outline of his human shape chugging up the hill to our house. He made it, in one piece, with rosy cheeks and the smell of childhood all over him."
Henry is our free range kid. He always has been although we have tried very hard to give every one of our children plenty of range. Think of the dog on a lease when he finally breaks free. The is the problem with protecting children and regulating children from every possible harm in this world is that they never experience freedom and the skins and scrapes that come with it. Better educate your kids. Make sure that they know how to find their way home. Teach them what to be wary of in addition to the always necessary who.
Take some time to read Skenazy's site.
Thanks, David.
Lenore Skenazy's site is here.
And excerpt:
"Recently, as dusk became dark and he was not yet home, I wondered if I had made a mistake. Where was my boy?! My heart began to race as I thought of every horrible thing that might have happened to him. I jumped in the car and as I started down the street I saw the outline of his human shape chugging up the hill to our house. He made it, in one piece, with rosy cheeks and the smell of childhood all over him."
Henry is our free range kid. He always has been although we have tried very hard to give every one of our children plenty of range. Think of the dog on a lease when he finally breaks free. The is the problem with protecting children and regulating children from every possible harm in this world is that they never experience freedom and the skins and scrapes that come with it. Better educate your kids. Make sure that they know how to find their way home. Teach them what to be wary of in addition to the always necessary who.
Take some time to read Skenazy's site.
Thanks, David.
Good advice in the article.
I've seen parents so worried that kids weren't allowed out of the yard on a one way dead end street where an entire neighborhood of good folks were keeping one watchful out out of their windows for the safety of the kids playing.
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I was a "free range kid" and am glad, for it teaches one independence and instills a sense of wonder about what else is out there to be discovered. We can't worry all our lives, have fun discovering the world and all its offerings.
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