All articles from Lenore Skenazy
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Modern Parenthood Emergency room visits an overreaction to childhood scrapes?
Emergency room visits for typical childhood playground accidents are probably an overreaction. Attitude adjustment to fearful parenting is necessary: "worst-first" is not the best philosophy.
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Modern Parenthood Looking for the 'perfect' nanny: Experience or up-to-date 'expertise?'
A nanny's years of experience raising children wasn't enough for one mother looking for the 'perfect' childminder. Have babies changed so much in the last few years that child-care providers need the most 'up-to-date' expertise?
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Modern Parenthood Potty dance at Costco: Can a good mom let 5-year-old “go” alone?
Costco bathroom is the scene of another free-range parenting controversy. If a 5-year-old is doing the potty dance in the check-out line, does a good mom allow her kid to use the bathroom alone?
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Modern Parenthood "How to spot a predator." Really?
'How to spot a predator.' Really? Our free-range parenting expert sounds off on some parents' continuing 'stranger danger' fears of child predators.
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Modern Parenthood Take your children to the park this weekend, and leave them there
Take your children to the park this weekend, and leave them there. That's the advice of our free-range parenting expert, who explains how simply taking your kids to the park can strengthen communities and instill independence.
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Modern Parenthood Crime or parenting? Cops called for kids playing alone in park
Parenting styles vary widely, from the helicopter variety to the free range. But a neighbor took the issue into her own hands recently, calling the cops on a dad who left his kids playing alone in a nearby park.
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Modern Parenthood Stranger danger and donuts: one school's (over) reaction
Stranger danger is something every parent thinks about--who is my child talking to when I'm not around. But sometimes, an offer of a free donut is simply that, as one school found out, albeit not before scaring its parents.
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Modern Parenthood Etan Patz and the helicopter parent fear of stranger danger
Etan Patz disappeared 33 years ago; the case is not good cause for today's continued anxiety and helicopter parent fears of stranger danger.
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