Lenore Skenazy

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Lenore Skenazy is the president of Let Grow, a non-profit promoting childhood independence and resilience, and the founder of the Free-Range Kids movement. Lenore discusses the generational differences in growing up, how unrealistic the current standards are for being a good parent, and the importance of play. Dax asks Lenore to dispel the myth of common childhood dangers and Lenore explains the negative notion of the phrase "stranger danger." The two discuss frequency distortion, how resilient kids are, and Lenore unveils her husband's crow box. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Are you're ready to do this?
0:02.0	Ball, bom, bum, bum, bum bum bum, bum bum bum, bum bum bum, bum bum, bum bum, bum,
0:08.0	bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armed Chair Expert.
0:12.5	I'm joined by Monica Monsoon, I'm nominated miniature Mouse.
0:17.8	What does your Starbucks say is your name?
0:20.6	Poser.
0:21.6	When you go to Starbucks, do they ever mess up your name? Oh sure, yeah yeah, yeah. Do they put Dan and Dab?
0:28.0	Dax Dac K Dac. Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah, a lot of different ones and you know my move for that is just like whatever they say I go yep yeah
0:39.1	it's just so much quicker imagine having a foreign name.
0:43.0	Like Monica?
0:44.0	Yeah.
0:45.0	Yeah. Yeah.
0:47.0	Well, okay, today we have a guess that we've been wanting to have on now for a couple years because good old Jonathan
0:54.8	Height recommended her and we finally made it happen Lenore Schenasey. She is a journalist. She spent
1:02.0	14 years at the New York Daily News and two years at the New York
1:06.1	son, her column, Why I Let My Nine Year Old Ride the Subway Alone and Book Free Range
1:12.3	Kids launched the Anti-H helicopter parenting movement.
1:16.0	Currently, the co-founder and president of Let Grow with Jonathan Hite, their mission is to create
1:21.1	a new path back for parents and schools to letting kids have some
1:25.2	adventures, develop more independence, and grow resilient.
1:29.4	I dig her message.
1:31.4	Did you?
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