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You are excellent parents for fostering a sense of responsibility and emotional strength in your daughter. My Dad, a long time public elementary and middle school teacher gave my wife and I a copy of Skenazy’s Free Range Kids before our son was born. We laughed an scoffed at it initially. Skenazy is brilliant. She makes the fact based case of how poorly developed so many of our fears are. Toddlers in the yard are more likely to have a tree fall on them or get squished by a meteorite than abducted by the scary man in the van. Put the guns away folks. That boogeyman doesn’t actually exist and you’re teaching your kids to make habits of anxiety producing thoughts. I think I’ll read it again.