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Here, you can read the summary of both “What exactly is this whole “free-range kid” thing?” and “What Kind Of Parent Are You? The Debate Over ‘Free-Range’ Children”.

“What exactly is this whole “free-range kid” thing?”

The text is an interview article with Lenore Skenazy, the woman who started what is now the ‘free-range parenting’ movement.

In the interview, Skenazy explains that free-range parenting is a movement that fights against a cultural custom according to which children are in constant danger, either of being hurt or failing.

The woman talks about media leading parents to believe their children are always at risk of being killed or kidnapped which, in her view, is not the case for the majority. She also talks about the fact that childhood safety sells, with many companies coming up with all kinds of devices tracking a child’s safety.

Skenazy goes on to explain that her goal is to m...