#300: How to Raise Free Range Kids

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.7 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

My guest today is Lenore Skenazy, author of "Free Range Kids." Today on the show, Lenore and I discuss how being labeled “America’s Worst Mom” led her to become a leader of a movement to give kids more unsupervised time, the cultural shifts that have happened in the past 30 years that have resulted in overprotective parenting, and why, contrary to popular belief, the chance of your kid getting abducted by a stranger is actually incredibly small. Along the way, Lenore shares some crazy stories of parents getting in trouble with the law simply for letting their children play outside by themselves. We end our conversation with some actionable steps you can take as a parent to raise independent, self-reliant kids and why it’s important for kids to have as much unsupervised play as possible. If you’re a parent or a parent-to-be, you don’t want to miss this hilarious, but informative episode.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm not sure if I can do it.
0:15.0	Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:18.4	Actually, this is the 300th episode of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:21.6	Before we get to our show, I just want to say thank you all who have been following
0:24.2	the podcast for a few years now and who just come on.
0:26.7	It's crazy this thing that I started in 2009 and then stopped for a bit and then started
0:31.4	back up again in 2013 has grown to be what it is today.
0:34.8	We're at a 50 million total downloads or plays overall since we've been doing this.
0:39.9	We get about 1 million downloads a month.
0:42.2	So it's just crazy.
0:43.2	Thank you all for your team's support.
0:44.2	Thanks to the letters with feedback and encouraging words and thanks for sharing the
0:47.5	show with your friends.
0:49.0	And so here's to 300 more episodes and yeah, thanks.
0:51.7	So let's get today's episode.
0:52.7	I'm really excited about it.
0:54.0	Last month we ran a four-part article series on artofmanliness.com about the origins
0:58.1	and downsides of overprotective parenting and how to raise more independent kids.
1:01.9	My guest today on the show was a key resource in that series and has been at the forefront
1:06.0	of battling helicopter parenting for nearly a decade.
1:08.7	Her name is Lenore Skanesi and she's the author of Free Range Kids, How to Raise Safe,
1:13.1	Self-Relined, Children Without Going Nuts with Worry.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Art of Manliness, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Art of Manliness and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.