Lenore Skenazy

Lenore Skenazy is founder of the book and blog, “Free-Range Kids” (www.freerangekids.com), which launched the anti-helicopter parenting movement. A public speaker and frequent guest on talk shows, she has written for everyone from The Washington Post to Mad Magazine. Yep. The Mad Magazine. She also invented, “Take Our Children to the Park…And Leave Them There Day.” A graduate of Yale and Columbia, she lives in New York City with her husband and teen sons who are half-Free-Range and half Facebook addicts. Then again, so is she.


Articles by Lenore Skenazy

Old Enough

Why does it sometimes feel almost counter-cultural to pack your kids off to camp? Maybe because we’re living in a ...

Bonsai Parenting

Most parents send their kids to camp because they know that kids grow in a different way — faster — ...

Nothing Bad Happened When My Kid…

Folks — As much as I literally feel my heart pounding every time I hear a story about crazy fear-mongering, ...

How Very Welcoming

Hi Readers! Here’s the sign a nature center director is about to take down from the local preserve where, for ...

A Hovering Mother Reconsiders

Hi Readers: I really enjoyed this Boston Magazine story, by Katherine Ozment. Here’s a snippet from this mom of 2: In my nine ...

Deep-ish Thoughts on Play

Hi Readers! Modern-day life keeps replacing playing time with “teaching time,” as if the two are at odds. But in ...

Kids and Kittens and Keeping Them Inside

Lenore Skenazy is a public speaker and founder of the book and blog Free-Range Kids. Her show “World’s Worst Mom” ...

When Separation Anxiety Goes Overboard

Lenore Skenazy is founder of the book and blog, “Free-Range Kids” which launched the anti-helicopter parenting movement. This Wall Street ...