1. Guldberg, H. (2009) Reclaiming Childhood: Freedom and play in an age of fear (London and New York: Routledge).
2. Guldberg combines insights from child development theory with a cultural critique to show the various ways in which children’s lives have become
3. constrained by overblown fears about the hazards of everyday life, from accidents to bullying to the risks posed by the Internet. Reclaiming Childhoodhas become an influential text for those studying the history, sociology, and psychology of childhood, and is equally important reading for students of parenting culture.
4. Skenazy, L. (2009) Free-Range Kids: Giving our children the freedom we had without going nuts with worry (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass).
5. This is a humorous riposte to the culture of fear surrounding children, packed with statistics revealing the extent to which children are, in many ways, safer than ever before. As well as in the book, Skenazy has pioneered an active movement promoting ‘free range kids’, which she has continued on her lively blog:
http://www.freerangekids.com
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