Google “America’s Worst Mom” and you’ll quickly learn that Lenore Skenazy once let her 9-year-old son ride the subway alone.
The columnist and reality show host got that title after writing about her boy’s remarkable experience safely getting from point A to point B without an adult by his side.
But not everyone thought this was a good idea, and in response to the media blowback, she founded the blog and movement, “Free-Range Kids.” Her feisty belief that our kids are safer and smarter than our culture gives them credit for has landed her on talk shows like “Dr. Phil” and “The View.”
She has lectured internationally, from Microsoft’s headquarters to the Sydney Opera House, and she’s also host of “World’s Worst Mom,” a reality show airing on Discovery-TLC in most of the world, but, surprisingly, not the U.S.
Now, Skenazy brings her brand of fun, engaging writing to the and NYC Community Media and Community News Group, where her new column, Rhymes With Crazy, will appear each issue of Downtown Express.
A graduate of Yale, she lives Queens with her husband and two teen sons. Her writing has appeared in the New York Daily News, where she was a columnist for 14 years, the New York Sun, NPR, and, of course, MAD Magazine.
