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Originally Posted by nmhen

My wife is into this "free range kids" movement. The idea that people, at least Americans (massive, massive generalizations), over-parent and over-protect their kids and, worse, condemn parents who don't over-protect theirs. The idea is basically that, yes, there are dangers out there, and one child abduction is awful and terrible and a tragedy.

But, statistically, child abductions and the like are incredibly rare relative to the number of children out there.

So the over-protecting amounts to nothing, and smothers our kids.

There's a lady who started this whole thing, and has taken some heat for it, and my wife went to hear her speak and relayed a story about leaving our (then) 4-year old daughter alone in the kids section of the public library for a couple minutes. The lady put that story up on her blog and it got all kinds of attention. Hundreds and hundreds of reactions. Some people saying our kids obviously should be taken away from us on one end of the spectrum, others saying "good for you" on the other.

Anyway, this Roy Green apparently has had the lady (Lenore something or another) on his show, and specifically talked about my wife's story once, and that's how he came to contact my wife about being on his show - though Lenore.

Good work!

Free Range Kids is subscribed to in my blog reader. I remember all the backlash your wife received about her story.

Good luck on air this weekend.