Author and parent advocate Lenore Skenazy's weekly column is available to read at Sovren!

Skenazy made national news in 2008 when she wrote an article about letting her 9-year-old ride the subway without her supervision. Since then, Skenazy has made countless presentations and television appearances, and has written extensively about  "free-range" children and parenting; she is candid and vocal about raising today's children with a more pronounced sense of independence. 

She is also the president and co-founder of Let Grow, an organization that encourages parents and adult mentors to facilitate acts of independence from children of various ages. 

At Sovren, you can now read Skenazy's perspectives about parenting styles, play-based learning, childhood milestones, and the pervasive narratives in mainstream media about "stranger danger" and compulsive supervision of children. Here are some of her recent columns:

Skenazy describes recent research and the results that were found when people were tasked with talking to strangers. Click here to read.

Skenazy writes about outside pressure to make every act of play an educational moment. Click here to read.

"What happens when society get so concerned about child safety that it starts imagining danger EVERYWHERE, and punishes anyone remaining rational?" Skenazy asks as she writes about arrests and remprimands across the US in 2022 in the name of "child safety". Click here to read.

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