I'm the CEO of Life360. My own childhood was surprisingly hands-off.
Lauren Antonoff is the CEO of Life360 Courtesy of Life360 Lauren 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 ...
