Marie
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Lenore Skenazy, the mother who attracted international attention because she let her young son use the subway alone and the author of Free Range Kids, is "officially declaring Saturday, May 22 the weekend before Memorial Day the very first, Take Our Children to the Park
And Leave Them There Day.
On her blog and in her book she claims that crime rates are down and parents today are over-protective to the detriment of their children's emotional well-being and that we parents need to start letting our children play outside alone and that the risk is worth taking.
"I know there will be shrill voices insisting, Predators are gonna love this holiday! but keep a level head."
On her blog and in her book she claims that crime rates are down and parents today are over-protective to the detriment of their children's emotional well-being and that we parents need to start letting our children play outside alone and that the risk is worth taking.
"I know there will be shrill voices insisting, Predators are gonna love this holiday! but keep a level head."