Lenore Skenazy | |
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Born | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | November 27, 1959
Education | Yale University (BA) Columbia University (MA) |
Occupation(s) | Writer and reality show host |
Organization | Let Grow |
Known for | Free-range parenting |
Notable work | Book: "Free-Range Kids: How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow" (2021) |
Television | World's Worst Mom |
Lenore Skenazy (/lɪˈnɔːr skəˈneɪzi/) is an American speaker, blogger, syndicated columnist, author, and reality show host, known for her activism in favor of free-range parenting. In 2008, she wrote a controversial column on her decision to let her then-9-year-old son take the New York City Subway home alone, which became a national story and prompted massive media attention, and dubbing as "America's Worst Mom."[1] In response, Skenazy wrote the book "Free-Range Kids" and ran a blog of the same name. She is the president of Let Grow, co-founded in 2018 with Daniel Shuchman, Dr. Peter Gray and Prof. Jonathan Haidt,[2] an organisation advocating free-range parenting.