Lenore Skenazy Blogger, Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Husband, Son, and Net Worth

Lenore Skenazy Bio | Wiki

Lenore Skenazy is a famous American speaker, blogger, syndicated columnist, author, and reality show host. She serves as the president of Let Grow, co-founded in 2018 with Daniel Shuchman. In addition, she has authored a book “Free-Range Kids” and ran a blog of the same name.

Lenore Skenazy Age

She was born in the United States. Skenazy is around 63 years old.

Lenore Skenazy Height

She is a woman of average stature standing at a height of 5 ft 6 in (Approx 1.68 m).

Lenore Skenazy Family

She was born to supportive parents in the United States. Skenazy holds American nationality and is Jewish. Her paternal grandparents emigrated from Çanakkale, Turkey. Moreoever, information regarding her parents remains unknown.

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Lenore Skenazy Husband

She is hitched to her loving husband whose name remains unknown. The couple resides in Queens and they are parents of two sons Izzy and Henry.

Lenore Skenazy Education

Upon graduating with her high school diploma, she enrolled at Yale University and graduated in 1981. In 1983, she attained her master’s degree from Columbia.

Lenore Skenazy Free Ranging Kids

In 2009, she published a book Free-Range Kids, due to the popularity of her blog where she allowed her 9-year-old to ride the subway alone in NYC. Parents argued about it, bloggers blogged, spouses became uncivil with each other, and also the media jumped all over it. Moreoever, the book has 256 pages published by John Wiley & Sons.

Lenore Skenazy Son

She is a proud mother of two sons. In 2008, she wrote a column for the New York Sun in which she provocatively revealed that she’d allowed her 9-year-old son Izzy to make his way home from Bloomingdale’s in Manhattan to the family’s home. This led her to be dubbed “America’s Worst Mom” by the media. Skenazy also had another son Henry who died of a brain injury resulting from an opiate overdose a few weeks before he should have graduated high school.

Lenore Skenazy Blogger

She worked as a columnist for the New York Daily News for 14 years until she was fired in December 2006. During her tenure, she wrote about a couple that got married underwater. Skenazy subsequently moved to The New York Sun and wrote there until it shut down in 2008. Moreoever, she wrote a column in The New York Sun, “Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone” which made a controversial decision to let her son take the New York City Subway home alone.

The column appeared on The Today Show, Fox News, NPR, and MSNBC two days after the column appeared. She was profiled in The New Yorker and The New York Times in 2015. In 2009, she published a book Free-Range Kids, due to the popularity of her blog. Further, she is the founder of the non-profit Let Grow, an organization that advocates free-range parenting and childhood independence.

Lenore Skenazy Net Worth

Skenazy is a famous American speaker, blogger, syndicated columnist, author, and reality show host who has attained decent fortune from her career. Skenazy’s net worth is $1.1 Million.

Who Is Lenore Skenazy

Skenazy is a famous American speaker, blogger, syndicated columnist, author, and reality show host. She serves as the president of Let Grow, co-founded in 2018 with Daniel Shuchman. In addition, she has authored a book “Free-Range Kids” and ran a blog of the same name. The column appeared on The Today Show, Fox News, NPR, and MSNBC two days after the column appeared.

How Many Kids Does Lenore Skenazy Have

She resides in Queens and is a mother of two sons Izzy and Henry.  However, Henry died of a brain injury resulting from an opiate overdose a few weeks before he should have graduated high school.

How Tall Is Lenore Skenazy

She is a woman of average stature standing at 5 ft 6 in tall.

Skenazy Social Media Platforms

Twitter – @FreeRangeKids