Lenore Skenazy: Why I'm Raising Free-Range Kids

By Michael Bates on June 30, 2009 1:43 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Lenore Skenazy: Why I'm Raising Free-Range Kids

Skenazy writes that DVDs of the first five seasons of Sesame Street (1969-1974) are labeled adults-only, because they show kids playing on their own: "'These early Sesame Street episodes are intended for grown-ups.'... The wimps at PBS refuse to sanction any notion that kids can play on their own anymore. So now it's modeling the NEW norm: Constant parental supervision."

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