I'm the CEO of Life360. My own childhood was surprisingly hands-off.
Source: Business Insider ·
Life360 CEO Lauren Antonoff says her independent childhood shaped how she thinks about parenting, technology, and family connections.
From the source
Lauren Antonoff is the CEO of Life360Courtesy of Life360Lauren Antonoff is the CEO of Life360 and uses the location-sharing platform with her family.She says she tried to mimic her mom's somewhat hands-off parenting with her own two kids.Giving kids space can help them develop agency and independence, she says.This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lauren Antonoff, CEO of Life360. It has been edited for length and clarity.My mother was an awesome parent, but she was a person first. It was just the two of us for a lot of my childhood, between the time my dad died when I was 8, and my mom remarried when I was 14.During those years, my mom was parenting while also in school, working, and dating. She was always there for me, but she wasn't trying to manage my childhood. She didn't do homework with me, for example. She made sure I was happy, loved, and well cared for, all while living her own life.A lot of single moms might not have been open about things like dating, but…