Listen free for 30 days
Listen with offer
-
Free-Range Kids
- How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£0.00 for first 30 days
Free-Range Kids
Buy Now for £12.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Summary
In the newly revised and expanded second edition of Free-Range Kids, New York columnist-turned-movement leader Lenore Skenazy delivers a compelling and entertaining look at how we got so worried about everything our kids do, see, eat, read, wear, watch, and lick - and how to bid a whole lot of that anxiety goodbye. With real-world examples, advice, and a gimlet-eyed look at the way our culture forces fear down our throats, Skenazy describes how parents and educators can step back so kids step up. Positive change is faster, easier, and a lot more fun than you'd believe. This is the book that has helped millions of American parents feel brave and optimistic again-and the same goes for their kids.
Using research, humor, and feisty common sense, the book shows:
- How parents can reject the media message, "Your child is in horrible danger!"
- How schools can give students more independence - and what happens when they do. (Hint: Teachers love it.)
- How everyone can relax and successfully navigate a judge-y world filled with way too many warnings, scolds, and brand new fears
Listeners also enjoyed...
What listeners say about Free-Range Kids
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Andrea
- 05-11-24
Lifechanging book
Great ideas and amazingly easy changes to implement to make life better for the whole family.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall1 out of 5 stars
-
Performance1 out of 5 stars
-
Story1 out of 5 stars
- Rebecca
- 15-02-22
Promising idea, miserable read
Absolutely loved the premise for this book, that children deserve more independence and freedoms, but I couldn't get past the first 5 chapters. I love reading a variety of different perspectives on early years development, parenting styles etc, but I've never come across an author who denounces Everything except her own opinion, which is woefully misinformed. She name checks books she doesn't like and pokes fun at them for lengthy paragraphs, disregarding their basis in child development research, instead disregarding it as guilt-inducing. All the while expecting us to follow word - for - word her "commandments" for better parenting? It's embarrassingly un-self-aware.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall1 out of 5 stars
-
Performance2 out of 5 stars
-
Story1 out of 5 stars
- Richard Hartley-Parkinson
- 20-09-24
Fabulously preachy
Phyllis Schlafly and Mary Whitehouse, eat your hearts out. This Trumpian lecture - "ignore the experts, think nothing other than what I think" - left me disappointed. I came here for tips on raising a free child, instead you get a stream of consciousness that treats opinion as being more valuable than fact and ridicule for anyone with a counter view. There are much better books that include proper research and tips for bringing up free children.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!