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Why Parents Can't Let Go: The Fear Loop with Lenore Skenazy
She let her 9-year-old ride the New York City subway home alone, wrote about it, and two days later was on national TV being called "America's worst mom."
Lenore Skenazy, author of Free-Range Kids and president of Let Grow, joins Mike McDonell around the campfire to talk about what it costs a parent to trust their kid. They get into why half of parents of 9 to 11 year olds won't let their child go to the next aisle at the store, how camp drop-off has changed since 1994, the "fear loop" that keeps parents stuck, and why kids say unstructured time with friends is what they want most. Lenore…
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