"Free Range Kids"

Lenore Skenazy:

I left my 9-year-old at Bloomingdale’s (the original one) a couple weeks ago. Last seen, he was in first floor handbags as I sashayed out the door.

Bye-bye! Have fun!

And he did. He came home on the subway and bus by himself.

RELATED: Listen to Ms. Skenazy on WNYC.

Was I worried? Yes, a tinge. But it didn’t strike me as that daring, either. Isn’t New York as safe now as it was in 1963? It’s not like we’re living in downtown Baghdad.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 13, 2008 12:01 AM
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