Free Range and Laissez Faire Parenting
Free Range and Laissez Faire Parenting
People often tell you they have a certain brand of parenting style. I’d like to introduce two new forms of parenting to the world: Free-Range and Laissez-Faire parenting styles. Since people often refer to their children as little animals, I thought I’d bring to light the concept of Free-Range Parenting which Gabriel underwent after six years of age. It’s not the concept of not loving your child but allowing them to roam and learn on their own; one might even call it Laissez-Faire or hands-off parenting.
In economics, the hands-off approach to business means very little regulation or any at all. So, we see the same thing in parenting. Allowing a child to roam so to speak, will allow them to become street smart and self-motivated with school, so you hope. The opposite could occur, therefore creating a govern-less monster. In the case of The Cyclist, Gabriel’s life begins with attentive very hands-on parents. He describes playing catch and hide-and-go-seek with his mother and father often. His father schooled him from a very early age which became apparent when he started the first day of school. It wasn’t until school began that the Free-Range parenting style of the Liden’s came into play. They left the world in which he was transported to be his teacher. They hoped that the roots they had given him as a very young boy would help him to grow to a fruitful, well-rounded young man and beyond, wandering or not. The Liden’s were lucky in the fact that Gabriel had a moral compass to guide him, and more strangely, that his new guardian was a bit Laissez-Faire as well—Gabriel relied on his base teachings.
Haw had a four-month period to assess Gabriel’s potential. He doesn’t actually appear in the book until the third chapter, and right off the bat, the boys are off around the swanky part of town, out until all hours of the night. Herein lies the question, were the parent's hands-off because they just didn’t care or were too busy, or did they just have an inherent trust that the boys would do the right thing? I think the important part of the Free-Range, Laissez-Faire teaching, is that there must be a solid base for the child, to begin with. You can’t just go from womb to wanderer, you would fail every time. The next question I would ask would be, how long does the initial period need to be. You might argue that raising a child to eighteen and then sending it out into the world could be Laissez-Faire, just depends on how deep you want the teacher's roots to go in the child? So, I guess one would say do you want your child or your adult child to wander? It’s a valid question…
People often tell you they have a certain brand of parenting style. I’d like to introduce two new forms of parenting to the world: Free-Range and Laissez-Faire parenting styles. Since people often refer to their children as little animals, I thought I’d bring to light the concept of Free-Range Parenting which Gabriel underwent after six years of age. It’s not the concept of not loving your child but allowing them to roam and learn on their own; one might even call it Laissez-Faire or hands-off parenting.
In economics, the hands-off approach to business means very little regulation or any at all. So, we see the same thing in parenting. Allowing a child to roam so to speak, will allow them to become street smart and self-motivated with school, so you hope. The opposite could occur, therefore creating a govern-less monster. In the case of The Cyclist, Gabriel’s life begins with attentive very hands-on parents. He describes playing catch and hide-and-go-seek with his mother and father often. His father schooled him from a very early age which became apparent when he started the first day of school. It wasn’t until school began that the Free-Range parenting style of the Liden’s came into play. They left the world in which he was transported to be his teacher. They hoped that the roots they had given him as a very young boy would help him to grow to a fruitful, well-rounded young man and beyond, wandering or not. The Liden’s were lucky in the fact that Gabriel had a moral compass to guide him, and more strangely, that his new guardian was a bit Laissez-Faire as well—Gabriel relied on his base teachings.
Haw had a four-month period to assess Gabriel’s potential. He doesn’t actually appear in the book until the third chapter, and right off the bat, the boys are off around the swanky part of town, out until all hours of the night. Herein lies the question, were the parent's hands-off because they just didn’t care or were too busy, or did they just have an inherent trust that the boys would do the right thing? I think the important part of the Free-Range, Laissez-Faire teaching, is that there must be a solid base for the child, to begin with. You can’t just go from womb to wanderer, you would fail every time. The next question I would ask would be, how long does the initial period need to be. You might argue that raising a child to eighteen and then sending it out into the world could be Laissez-Faire, just depends on how deep you want the teacher's roots to go in the child? So, I guess one would say do you want your child or your adult child to wander? It’s a valid question…
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