On. Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 7:00 pm, Lenore Skenazy, author of Free-Range Kids, president of Let Grow, and collaborator on The Anxious Generation, joins Menlo Park City School District Superintendent Kristen Gracia in conversation to discuss how ample unstructured time with friends, along with more real-world independence and responsibility, can decrease anxiety in children. And us!
The program, which is open to the broader community, takes place at Hillview Middle School PAC, 1100 Elder Avenue. Free childcare for potty-trained children.
In 2018, Lenore founded Let Grow with Jonathan Haidt and two others. Their mission is to make childhood independence easy, normal and legal again. Let Grow explains not just where our culture took a wrong turn, but real-world ways to get our kids back to having some adventures, solving some problems, and blossoming.
Lenore was dubbed “America’s Worst Mom” after letting her 9-year-old son take the subway alone and then writing about it. In response to the media blowback, she founded “Free-Range Kids,” which launched the anti-helicopter parenting movement. Her belief that our kids are safer and smarter than our culture gives them credit for has landed her on talk shows from The Daily Show to Dr. Phil to The View, The Today Show, NPR, Good Morning America, Nightline, ABC World News Tonight, CBS Early Show, CNN, FoxNews, Anderson Cooper, the BBC, the CBC — you get the idea.
She has lectured internationally, from Microsoft Headquarters to DreamWorks and she has written for everyone from The Wall Street Journal to Mad Magazine. She holds a BA from Yale and lives in New York City with her husband and beloved computer.
Photo by Evan Ann
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