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Free range kids : giving our children the freedom we had without going nuts with
Skenazy, Lenore
Adult Nonfiction HQ769 .S5519 2009
Skenazy, Lenore
Adult Nonfiction HQ769 .S5519 2009
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| Contents | Page |
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| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction: Welcome to-Yikes! | p. xi |
| Part 1 - The Fourteen Free-Range Commandments | p. 1 |
| 1 - Know When to Worry: Play Dates and Axe Murderers: How to Tell the Difference | p. 3 |
| 2 - Turn Off the News: Go Easy on the "Law and Order," Too | p. 12 |
| 3 - Avoid Experts: Who Knew You Were Doing Everything Wrong?. . .Them! | p. 21 |
| 4 - Boycott Baby Knee Pads: And the Rest of the Kiddis Safety-Industrial Complex | p. 31 |
| 5 - Don't Think Like a Lawyer: Some Risks Are Worth It | p. 41 |
| 6 - Ignore the Blamers: They Don't Know Your Kid Like You Do | p. 50 |
| 7 - Eat Chocolate: Give Halloween Back to the Trick-or-Treaters | p. 59 |
| 8 - Study History: Your Ten-Year-Old Would Have Been Forging Horseshoes (or at Least Deliverting Papers) | p. 68 |
| 9 - Be Worldly: Why Other Countries Are Laughing at zee Scaredy-Cat Americans | p. 80 |
| 10 - Get Braver: Quit Trying to Control Everything. It Doesn't Work Anyway | p. 91 |
| 11 - Relax: Not Every Little Thing You Do Has That Much Impact on Your Child's Development | p. 103 |
| 12 - Fail! Is's the New Succeed | p. 114 |
| 13 - Lock Them Out: Make Them Play-or Else! | p. 125 |
| 14 - Listen to Your Kids: They Don't Want to Be Treated Like Babies (Except the Actual Babies, of Course) | p. 135 |
| Part 2 - The Free-Range Guide to Life | p. 145 |
| Safe or Not? The A-to-Z Review of Everything You Might Be Worried About | p. 147 |
| Animals, Being Eaten By | |
| Bats (Metal) | |
| Bats (Vampire) | |
| Bottle Feeding: Formula for Disaster? | |
| BPA Poisoning in Baby Bottles, Sippy Cups. . .and Everything Else | |
| Cell Phones and Brain Cancer (but Not, Alas, "Cell Phones and How Come Your Kids Never Answer When You Need Them To") | |
| Choking on Food and All the Other Little Things Around the House | |
| Cough and Cold Medicinitis | |
| Death by Stroller | |
| Eating Snow | |
| Germs, Antigerms, and Shopping Cart Liners | |
| Halloween Candy: Hershey's Kiss of Death? | |
| Internet Predators and Other Skeeves Online | |
| Lead Paint, Lead Toys, and Lead Everything from China | |
| Licking the Batter off Beaters While They Are Still Plugged In | |
| Plastic Bags and Why There Are Warnings All over Them | |
| Playground Perils | |
| Pools and Water and Kids and Toilets (Not the Fun Part) | |
| Raw Dough's Raw Deal | |
| School Shootings | |
| Spoilage (of Children) | |
| Spoilage (of Lunch) | |
| Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) | |
| Sunscreen, Vitamin D, Skin Cancer, You Name It | |
| Teen Sex (Yes, Kids, We Know You're Reading This. Now Come and Ask Us All About Contraception) | |
| The Woods, Playing In | |
| Walking to School (or at Least the Bus Stop) | |
| Zoo Animals (in Cracker Form and Otherwise) | |
| Strangers with Candy | |
| Even the Folks Who Put the Faces on Milk Cartons Aren't Too Worried | p. 180 |
| Conclusion | |
| The Other Problem That Has No Name-and Its Solution | p. 191 |
| Sources | p. 197 |
| Helpful Books, Blogs, Web Sites, and Some Inspiring Family Movies | p. 211 |
| About the Author | p. 215 |
| Index | p. 217 |
| Free-Range Membership Cards | p. 227 |
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