I sat down with Lenore Skenazy, founder of the ‘Free-Range Kids’ movement, to get her take on the modern trend of overprotecting and over-scheduling children. Micromanaging your kids’ lives sends one message loud and clear—you don’t believe in their ability to figure things out on their own. Our job as parents is to prepare our kids to live and thrive after our deaths, not to perpetually shield them from risk. Lenore breaks down the consequences of focusing on structured, supervised activities at the expense of independent exploration and adventure.
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