The Walls Family From The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

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Free-range parenting teaches children to become responsible,how to face their fears and also prepares them for life when they are older. Free range children are much more responsible than most children their age, this is because the children are allowed to do what most children wouldn’t be able to with regular parents. The Walls family from The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls believe in free range parenting and you can see that their kids are responsible at a young age. Jeannette, when she was only four, was capable of many things that other kids her age would not be. In the book it says, “I cooked hot dogs. I was hungry, mom was at work on a painting, and no one else was there to fix them for me.” (Walls 15) This shows that free range

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