Reasons to Let Our Kids Be Free Range Kids With Lenore Skenazy
The Wellness Mama Podcast
Katie Wells
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Episode Highlights With Lenore
- How she initially rose to fame by letting her child ride the subway alone and how she got the title “America’s worst mom” because of it
- The way we got to a point where we're afraid to let our kids do things that many of us remember doing
- Crime is lower now than when we were kids so why are we more worried?
- Two big things that happened in the 1980s that shifted parenting in the US
- Big factors that have influenced why we have more fear around parenting now
- Why we all have the desire to keep our kids safe but the downsides of an over curated childhood
- The negative effects of over curated childhood for children
- Why more kids are having depression and anxiety and how kids feeling underestimated can contribute to this
- How too much control is harming children and why kids need an internal locus of control
- Independence, responsibility, and trust all help contribute to this internal locus of control for kids
- What the Let Grow Project is and the free resources they have
- How to rewire your own fears as a parent to feel safe in letting our kids have more independence
Resources We Mention
- Free-Range Kids: How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow by Lenore Skenazy
- Let Grow Website
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Free to Learn by Peter Gray
- The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
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