Eps 85: Free Range Parenting with Kim Estes
Episode 85
Today’s guest is Kim Estes, a speaker and coach who talks to parents of kids from pre-school to adolescents about safety concerns. We are discussing free-range parenting today. Join us!
“Our kids are wanting to explore their world and it’s our job to teach them to do it safely.”
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Takeaways from the show
- Misconceptions about free-range parenting
- Boundaries in free-range parenting: subject to change based on individual children and age-level
- Assessing age and individual capacity specific boundaries – the value of checking in for safety
- Free-range parenting as giving kids space to practice intuition
- Fear of judgment and free-range parenting
- Risk assessment and safety – likelihood of concerns relating to traffic safety and abduction
- Assessing risk tolerance as parents
- Stranger safety vs Stranger danger
- Free-range parenting as freedom within structure
- Finding the happy medium: learning new skills with appropriate boundaries
- Being consistent about expectations and boundaries
- Mistakes as learning experiences – handling situations where things don’t go as planned
- Being available and non-judgmental when negotiating boundaries – dropping into curiosity to keep communication lines open
- No questions asked, do-overs on both sides and owning failure
- Exercising self-compassion and forgiveness when you don’t realize you’re being called to “the big show”
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