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A Swedish mum’s secret for raising healthy kids

‘I think we’ve gone overboard with trying to keep kids safe’: a Swedish mum’s secret for raising healthy kids

Eugenia Tanaka

news@thelocal.se  'I think we've gone overboard with trying to keep kids safe': a Swedish mum's secret for raising healthy kids

 Linda Åkeson McGurk. Photo: Private

Eugenia Tanaka

Linda Åkeson McGurk grew up in Southern Sweden and moved to the US years ago with her American husband. She had lived there for years and felt completely integrated in American society, until she had a baby and her notions of how to raise a child clashed with those of the rural Indiana town she calls home…