Martha Ross Free Range Parenting Style Analysis

Although I may lack extensive experience working with the younger generations, from the encounters I have experienced it seems that parents and parenting styles range greatly family to family. Specifically, they fall on one end of the helicopter parenting and free range parenting spectrum, rather than finding themselves somewhere in the middle. Every parent wants their children to achieve the same amount, if not more, success than they have, but everyone approaches this goal in a different way. I was raised in a combination of the free range and helicopter styles, which I feel is the best way to be parented. I was given the opportunity to embark on my own which taught me to be independent and responsible, yet I was always gently pushed in the right direction.
An article I found from
However this sense of independence is not important to some parents; “It used to be that parents would brad among themselves, ‘Oh, my kid can walk to school or go to the store and bring home a carton of milk.’ Some parents now don’t care about that at all… We’ll endup with young adults who don’t know how to cope in the world. But if we build kids’ self-confidence that they are able to do things, they’ll be a lot happier.” (Lanza qtd. In Ross. N.p.) We do see a downside to this style of parenting though, as mentioned in this article. Some parents who are going by this standard often go without seeing their children for hours at a time. For some, this isn’t a problem but for others the thought of not knowing their child’s whereabouts is a good enough reason to avoid free range parenting in its entirety. We also see the increased risk of children being kidnapped or becoming a victim of another