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Lenore Skenazy is serious about allowing her children to grow, learn and experience the world from her “free-range” approach to parenting – and it’s one of the reasons we’re so excited she’s speaking at BlogHer ’09 about online safety for kids.
While many parents tend to worry, and then over-worry, Lenore has helped pioneer a new approach for this generation – and The New York Times Magazine applauded her for it in a recent article. Lenore has been interviewed by Salon and AP, and has been profiled in The Week magazine, The Washington Post and in The Daily Beast. She has also appeared on The View, Nightline, Good Morning America, NPR and ABC World News Tonight. She wrote the book – quite literally – on her parenting philosophy, which encourages parents to release themselves from the responsibility of sheltering their children, what some have termed “helicopter parenting.”
At BlogHer '09, Lenore will speak about safely raising children while allowing them the freedom many adults had as kids – including her perspective on how to keep children safe online and how parents, in Lenore's words, can "remain sane" in the process. Her panel, Online Safety For Your Kids Who Are Online Themselves, is sure to be a dynamic session: We’ve got an all-star lineup of Internet-savvy women who are in tune with today’s children, in touch with how they’re using the Internet, and interested in delivering the goods to BlogHer attendees so you can make smart, informed decisions (all while giving your children the space they need). And that’s really where free-range parenting begins, don’t you think?
(Extra bonus: the author of The New York Times Magazine article “Let the Kid Be,” linked above, is none other than Lisa Belkin – another BlogHer ’09 speaker!)
