Monday, June 15, 2009

Dad, Stop Worrying So Much about Keeping Your Kids Safe

Dad, Stop Worrying So Much about Keeping Your Kids Safe

LET'S TAKE A LOOK at some of the newer safety products being marketing to parents, starting with baby knee pads. What kind of fools do they take us for, that we’d be worried about this time-honored stage of babyhood? Knees were made for crawling. Unfortunately, we have entered an era that says you cannot trust yourself. Trust a product instead. Lenore Skenazy, author of Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry, offers Free Range tips for helicopter parents. Stop hovering. Learn more on Smartman Daily.