For the Weekly Geeks challenge today I've chosen a short quote from a parenting book I haven't read yet. Free Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry by Lenore Skenazy is due to be published in about a month but the introductory chapter has just been posted on Scribd. Lenore Skenazy caused a huge controversy in America when she let her nine year old ride the subway alone and then wrote a column about it for The New York Sun, and after this experience she started the Free-Range Kids blog.
'And that's really what we're talking about here. Carrie came home joyful. The world had become a less scary place, and she had fun along the way. All our kids need those opportunities to roam, to fall, to fail, and, finally, to fly.'
Great choice of a quote. Once last summer I let my daughter step out of the public library to get something from the car, which was open and parked near the door and within my range. I got such a scolding from the librarian. She was 10. She got confused between the automatic doors. I wondered what I was doing as a mom that my kid couldn't get through two sets of electric doors without help. Yeesh!
She definitely has a point. We may tend to shelter our kids more then they need it. But that being said I'm a more nervous mother and probably would have driven myself crazy had I let my son come home all alone on the subway at 10. She was a very interesting Oped writer for the Daily News before the controversy. I enjoyed reading her op eds, so her book must be really good.
Great choice of a quote. Once last summer I let my daughter step out of the public library to get something from the car, which was open and parked near the door and within my range. I got such a scolding from the librarian. She was 10. She got confused between the automatic doors. I wondered what I was doing as a mom that my kid couldn't get through two sets of electric doors without help. Yeesh!
ReplyDeleteShe definitely has a point. We may tend to shelter our kids more then they need it. But that being said I'm a more nervous mother and probably would have driven myself crazy had I let my son come home all alone on the subway at 10. She was a very interesting Oped writer for the Daily News before the controversy. I enjoyed reading her op eds, so her book must be really good.
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