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May 9, 2010 3 min

Protective vs. Paranoid: Is Stranger Danger Real?

from Parents Ask Hosted by DECA

Are you freaked out by "stranger danger"? Do horrible stories on the news make you feel like you'd rather keep your kid in a bubble than risk something awful happening to them? Today, Parents Ask experts Lenore Skenazy, author of Free-Range Kids, Joanne Stone, Ph.D., author of Parenting is a Contact Sport, and Susan Stiffelman, MFT, author of Parenting Without Power Struggles, discuss protective vs. paranoid parenting. Just how how real is stranger danger and what should parents do to take precaution?

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