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Alexandra Bruce
August 18, 2015
After a recent move to New York City from rural New Mexico, the Heaths found themselves reluctant to extend similar freedoms to their own kids, Cassidy, 10, and Riley, 12. “[They’re] on a much tighter leash than I was,” says Rusty. “I feel like my family is my responsibility and it’s difficult to put your kids’ safety at risk.”
Enter Lenore Skenazy, who’s a regular Reason.com contributor, a former New York Daily News and New York Sun columnist, and the host of a new show on the Discovery Life Channel called America’s Worst Mom.
Skenazy, who launched the free-range kids movement in 2008 after getting wide attention for a column explaining why she let her nine-year-old son take the subway by himself, recently started making house calls to nervous parents.
Skenazy came by the Heath home one evening, to coach them on building competent children.
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