Together with Piedmont Unplugged, the Piedmont Elementary Parent Education Program is pleased to bring Lenore Skenazy, author of Free Range Kids to Piedmont for a live talk followed by Q&A.

Lenore Skenazy, author of Free-Range Kids, president of Let Grow, and collaborator on the book The Anxious Generation, will join us to discuss how ample unstructured time with friends, along with more real-world independence and responsibility can decrease anxiety in 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 is a New York-based journalist who was dubbed “America’s Worst Mom” after letting her nine 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 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 to Harvard Med School, and she has written for everyone from The Wall Street Journal to Mad Magazine. (Yep — Mad!) She holds a BA from Yale and lives in New York City with her husband and beloved computer.