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Generalissimo of Free Range Kids Movement and popular (hilarious, life-changing) speaker. As seen on The Daily Show! Lskenazy@yahoo.com .
At least one engineering school has ditched the SATs in favor of the skills you can’t get just studying hard. Join the conversation at Let Grow!
Go to LetGrow.org to see the original Today Show interview with me about letting my 9-year-old ride the subway alone (host was quite dubious) vs. the CBS Evening News interview that ran last night on Utah’s Free-Range Kids Law, which, the report explained, naturally allows kids to naturally walk to school and naturally parents are happy about this. Suddenly, childhood freedom is kinda normal again. What a shift!
We have changed the course of parenting — and law. Loving moms and dads in Utah do not have to worry that they will be arrested or investigated simply for trusting their kids to walk to school, play outside, go to the park. I am blogging at Let Grow, as I now am head of a non-profit (rather than me just writing in my living room). Please join the conversation — and movement — there!
Predictably, this article is getting a lot of attention: Why I Won’t Let Any Male Babysit My Children, by Kasey Edwards, in Melbourne, Australia: When our first daughter was born my husband and I made a family rule: no man would ever babysit our children. No exceptions