Free-range parenting is not really a new thing. It's just a point of view of parents that don't want their kid to be codependent with all that follows it! Well you are or your not!
I was a free range kid in the 80's. I rode my bike to the swimming pool and everywhere. Found it useful watching the high school video on how to buy a car when I was in middle school. I woke myself up with a alarm in middle school also. I Felt I was not getting the education I needed when I was in school so went to the principal complaining about it. Only to realize the principal stood up for the teacher so I needed to teach myself also because they are not me they don't know me so my education is mine and I am me so it's up to me also because it's mine!
If not then how would I know without knowing from not doing it because with no experience in life to relate other things deeper learning would be shallow and so I would have not much to relate things to. Sort of like being hit in the head with education and thinking it's a June Bug!
If not then how would I know without knowing from not doing it because with no experience in life to relate other things deeper learning would be shallow and so I would have not much to relate things to. Sort of like being hit in the head with education and thinking it's a June Bug!
Give in my life this was the 80's and free range was as far as I could go on my bike or moped! I still had boundaries in that are just common sense but the point was I was thinking and knowing that! Live and learn because life makes you who you are!
http://walmartramen.blogspot.com/2014/12/my-middle-school-best-time-of-my-life-84.html
http://walmartramen.blogspot.com/2015/10/my-college-years-1990s-and-college-stuff.html
http://walmartramen.blogspot.com/2014/12/my-middle-school-best-time-of-my-life-84.html
http://walmartramen.blogspot.com/2015/10/my-college-years-1990s-and-college-stuff.html
~~~~~"It permits enough exploration for kids to come up against limits naturally." So free-range parents might allow things like playing outside alone or going to and from school without a chaperone, and let kids solve their own problems as they arise. According to followers, the benefits are many: "Free-range parenting supporters say that it encourages problem-solving skills, promotes creativity, strengthens personality formation, and builds confidence," Dr. Pruett says. "They also say that it makes children more resourceful."
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/a26824973/free-range-parenting
~~~~~After Utah passed the country’s first law legalizing so-called free-range parenting, groups in states from New York to Texas are pushing for similar steps to bolster the idea that supporters say is an antidote for anxiety-plagued parents and overscheduled kids.
Free-range parenting is the concept that giving kids the freedom to do things alone — like explore a playground or ride a bike to school — makes them healthier, happier and more resilient.
~~~~~After Utah passed the country’s first law legalizing so-called free-range parenting, groups in states from New York to Texas are pushing for similar steps to bolster the idea that supporters say is an antidote for anxiety-plagued parents and overscheduled kids.
Free-range parenting is the concept that giving kids the freedom to do things alone — like explore a playground or ride a bike to school — makes them healthier, happier and more resilient.
Free-range parenting differs from the concept of latchkey kids, or those who take care of themselves after school, in that it generally emphasizes getting kids outside in the neighborhood as a way to develop independence, Boston-based clinical psychologist Bobbi Wegner said.
Fears about letting kids make their own way date at least in part to cases like Etan Patz, who was among the first missing children pictured on milk cartons after disappearing while he walked to his New York City bus stop alone in 1979.
Meanwhile, as education has become more essential in the workforce, parents are increasingly eager to give their kids a leg up with lessons in everything from coding to cello.
“We sign our kids up for all these activities — tutoring, different things — to create this perfect resume from a very young age, but it’s really at a detriment to the kid’s mental health,” Wegner said.
While giving kids independence with parent oversight helps, it’s hard for adults to escape pressure to hover, she said.
“Parents need permission to do this,” Wegner said. A self-avowed free-range parent, she said a police officer once knocked on her door and threatened to call child services after seeing her then-3-and-a-half-year-old son standing at the end of the driveway talking to neighborhood kids. She’d like to see Massachusetts follow Utah’s lead.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/free-range-parenting-law-eyed-around-us-after-utah-gets-buzz
***There are issues in your current environment. It your town is not brought up yet you might have a lot of stupid people freaking out. Social illiteracy is the gateway to codependency, so just let your kids know and press on as no one in reality wants codependent kids nor do they want to be that way also! Have a evolution than not! Society is getting brought up!
~~~~~Today, new child-rearing norms are on the rise, with parents taking a more laissez-faire approach. “Free range” parenting, a reaction to the overbearing style of the previous generation, has become fashionable, even expected, among many of today’s parents.
In a corresponding shift, state laws are starting to catch up. Utah recently became the first state to explicitly legalize free-range parenting, with a new law stipulating that parents cannot be charged with neglect for allowing “a child, whose basic needs are met and who is of sufficient age and maturity to avoid harm or unreasonable risk of harm, to engage in independent activities.” Essentially, parents can now legally let their children “walk, run or bike to and from school, travel to commercial or recreational facilities, play outside and remain at home unattended” things that may previously have attracted the attention of child-welfare authorities.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/04/free-range-parenting/557051
***Even in the 1900's kids where also sort of free range being they worked. Having job responsibility at a young age. Well because they had to!
~~~~~Children’s Lives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Chores and Work
Rural children often worked on their family’s farms, helping with the endless tasks that were completed using human and animal power. Many children in cities and towns also worked: in mines, in factories, selling newspapers and food, and shining shoes. Concerns over child labor found support among the Progressives the growing number of people who believed government should take an active role in solving social and economic problems of society. In 1904 the National Child Labor Committee was formed to advocate for children in the work force. In the next few years, the federal government passed several laws to try to regulate child labor, but the Supreme Court declared them unconstitutional. Not until 1938 did the federal government successfully regulate the minimum age of employment and hours of work for children.
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/childrens lives/pdf/teacher_guide.pdf
Fears about letting kids make their own way date at least in part to cases like Etan Patz, who was among the first missing children pictured on milk cartons after disappearing while he walked to his New York City bus stop alone in 1979.
Meanwhile, as education has become more essential in the workforce, parents are increasingly eager to give their kids a leg up with lessons in everything from coding to cello.
“We sign our kids up for all these activities — tutoring, different things — to create this perfect resume from a very young age, but it’s really at a detriment to the kid’s mental health,” Wegner said.
While giving kids independence with parent oversight helps, it’s hard for adults to escape pressure to hover, she said.
“Parents need permission to do this,” Wegner said. A self-avowed free-range parent, she said a police officer once knocked on her door and threatened to call child services after seeing her then-3-and-a-half-year-old son standing at the end of the driveway talking to neighborhood kids. She’d like to see Massachusetts follow Utah’s lead.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/free-range-parenting-law-eyed-around-us-after-utah-gets-buzz
***There are issues in your current environment. It your town is not brought up yet you might have a lot of stupid people freaking out. Social illiteracy is the gateway to codependency, so just let your kids know and press on as no one in reality wants codependent kids nor do they want to be that way also! Have a evolution than not! Society is getting brought up!
~~~~~Today, new child-rearing norms are on the rise, with parents taking a more laissez-faire approach. “Free range” parenting, a reaction to the overbearing style of the previous generation, has become fashionable, even expected, among many of today’s parents.
In a corresponding shift, state laws are starting to catch up. Utah recently became the first state to explicitly legalize free-range parenting, with a new law stipulating that parents cannot be charged with neglect for allowing “a child, whose basic needs are met and who is of sufficient age and maturity to avoid harm or unreasonable risk of harm, to engage in independent activities.” Essentially, parents can now legally let their children “walk, run or bike to and from school, travel to commercial or recreational facilities, play outside and remain at home unattended” things that may previously have attracted the attention of child-welfare authorities.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/04/free-range-parenting/557051
***Even in the 1900's kids where also sort of free range being they worked. Having job responsibility at a young age. Well because they had to!
~~~~~Children’s Lives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Chores and Work
Rural children often worked on their family’s farms, helping with the endless tasks that were completed using human and animal power. Many children in cities and towns also worked: in mines, in factories, selling newspapers and food, and shining shoes. Concerns over child labor found support among the Progressives the growing number of people who believed government should take an active role in solving social and economic problems of society. In 1904 the National Child Labor Committee was formed to advocate for children in the work force. In the next few years, the federal government passed several laws to try to regulate child labor, but the Supreme Court declared them unconstitutional. Not until 1938 did the federal government successfully regulate the minimum age of employment and hours of work for children.
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/childrens lives/pdf/teacher_guide.pdf
