Parenting: The Challenge

This is the suggestion from the “radical free-range” mother Lenore Skenazy. She believes that is your child is at least 7 years old they can be left at the park for an hour or 10 minutes, whatever you can handle, so that they can meet and play with other children. This is one of the ways she gives her child more independence. Parents think the world is more dangerous than when we ourselves were children. When we were children we could ride our bikes and play with the neighbors until dark. I agree that children need to learn to take care of themselves and be allowed to do so, that doesn’t make you a bad parent. Parents just need to get through the social pressure of how you should parent.