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 Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Lenore Skenazy Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry 7:30pm, JCC Hart Theatre Free-Range Kids has become a national movement, sparked by the incredible response to Lenore Skenazy's article about allowing her 9-year-old son to ride the subway alone in NYC. Parent groups argued about it, bloggers blogged, spouses became uncivil with each other and the media jumped all over it. A lot of parents, Skenazy says, see any risk as too much risk. The flipside is that if you try to prevent every possible danger or difficulty in your child's life, that child never gets a chance to grow up. Lenore Skenazy is a syndicated columnist, humorist and, as a result of the media hype, the founder of Free-Range Kids. "This book is a bubbly but potent corrective for the irrational fears that drive so many parents crazy. Skenazy is witty, perceptive, persuasive and, above all, sensible." - Robert Needlman, M.D., coauthor, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 8th Edition Generously underwritten by Marjorie & Julian Goldstein Back to BOOK FESTIVAL SCHEDULE »  
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