Show 36: Free-Range vs. Over Parenting

STRANGERS AND GERMS AND BEARS! ... Oh my? Are parents these days too worried, or not worried enough? What's your parenting style - free-range or helicopter? Do you let the kids run free or do you hover? Where do you draw the line between caution and fear; encouragement and pressure; and healthy exposure and over-protection?

IN-STUDIO GUESTS: We're discussing these questions on this episode of Kids These Days! with two insightful guests, who are also mothers. In the studio with host Shana Sheehy are Lenore Skenazy (aka "World's Worst Mom"), author of Free-Range Kids: How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children Without Going Nuts With Worry joins us from New York; and right here from Alaska we've got Michelle Mitton in the studio - you may already be a fan of her hugely popular mommy-blog Scribbit.

FEATURED STORIES: Adults remember how things were different back in the day in a new segment of When I Was Young; parents from all over the state weigh in on how free (or not) they are with their children; and a new Power of One with the hip-hoppin', don't-stoppin' Junior Gisa of the after-school program AK PRIDE. Watch a video of AK PRIDE in action!