Playing with fear Feat. Lenore Skenazy

In Season 2, Episode 12 of Play it Forward, Lukas chats to “America’s Worst Mom” Lenore Skenazy. Lenore is a mother from Queens who caught the public eye after letting her 9-year-old son catch the subway, alone. She founded a book and blog called “Free-range kids” and co-founded Let Grow school programs and parent empowerment, in her quest to give kids back some old-fashioned independence. In this high-energy episode Lukas and Lenore talk about overcoming fears and cultivating courage in parents, common myths about what children are experiencing, giving kids agency and freedom, plus a whole bunch more. https://letgrow.org/program/the-let-grow-project/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVxRCcowgqU https://letgrow.org/program/play-club/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21594937.2021.1878774 https://www.adi.org/journal/CurrentIssue/CurrentIssue.pdf https://letgrow.org/free-chapter/ https://www.freerangekids.com/guide/ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-07/logan-children-playing-outside-in-neighborhood-first/100268152