Free-Range Kids. Lenore SkenazyЧитать онлайн книгу.
to make your kid safe, smart, and happy” drumbeat. The one beaten on that oh-so-educational, battery-operated drum.
Enrichment is all around us. Danger is not. Keep those two straight and your family will be richer in every sense of the word.
REAL WORLD
“Baby Whatever” Videos—What a Freaking Scam!
A Massachusetts mom writes:
I remember when my kids were babies, I had never really heard of the Baby Whatever videos. One of my friends raved and raved about them. I happened to see one at this friend's house once and thought, “This? That's it? This is the most boring useless drivel I have ever seen. What a freaking scam!” So I never ever purchased one. Instead, I let my kids play with toys, pull pots and pans out of the cabinet, bounce in their Exersaucer, and other such things.
My favorite Baby Einstein video story happened at a playgroup once. The playgroup met at another mom's house. She was another Baby video junkie. She put on a video, and the babies, who were about 9–11 months old, stopped playing with their toys and crawling around and just sat and stared. Except for my son. He first tried to crawl behind the TV to see what was there. Then he went over to one of the mesmerized kids, looked at the kid, looked at the TV, and took the other kid's toy.
That's my boy!
Going Free Range
Free-Range Baby Step: Release your baby bathwater temperature turtle into the wild.
Free-Range Brave Step: Walk through the baby safety department of a store with your oldest living relative asking, “Which of these things did you need?”
One Giant Leap for Free-Range Kind: Do something that will truly make your child safer and does not involve any new, dumb doodads: test your smoke alarms. Make sure they have working batteries. Make a deal with yourself to change them twice a year, when you change your clocks.
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