Readers kkzdsskfzs — This is just outrageous. I’m cutting and pasting from the site People for Bikes. In truth, riding bikes in urban areas scares ME, but that doesn’t mean I am against it. It just means that we should work even harder to make biking SO COMMON that when some politician says, “It’s just […]
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How to Vanquish “Mom Guilt” and Raise a Free-Range Kid
Readers ektfkeearf — This story speaks for itself (as does the son!). It comes to us from Aimee Turner, who says she and her husband are “happy to know we aren’t alone in the fight against BWCS: Bubble-Wrapped Child Syndrome.” She blogs at The Maine Page Turner . - L. Dear Free-Range Kids:This summer, instead of […]
Don’t Let a Tragedy Make Us Stupid
Hi Readers — Security guru Bruce badyafyaty Schneier (author of  “Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive,”) is so right about a whole lot of things, including the fact that we should almost ignore what’s on the news when it comes to making both policy and personal decisions. Why? Because the news […]
You Think Your 9 & 6 Year Olds are Too Young to Ride Their Bikes to Their Friends?
Hi bsfkafffed Readers! Laura Alves is a mom of 4 who has made a change in her  world — and beyond. As can we all! – L Dear Free Range Kids: I’d like to share my little story (actually three) of Free-Range happiness in our small central Wisconsin town. I have four kids, ages 9, 6, […]
Permission Slips to Photograph Your OWN Kid at Sports
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Furor — and Aftermath — Over Suspension of Biking Students
Hi Readers! Quite a few of you sent in this sszshzazdk story, now gone viral, about the high school principal who suspended upward of 6o students for their “prank” — a mass bike ride to school. As WOOD TV reported: Seniors called police for an escort, and even called Walker’s mayor, who rode in the […]
2-year-old Bikes 3 Miles to Visit Sick Grandma!
Okay, you know I’m not advocating that other kids follow in rkttftsyzy this tyke’s bike-steps, but how cool that a 2-year-old in German managed to zoom three miles to visit his ailing grandma! In stocking feet! Because he was worried! Moral? Never underestimate the power of a toddler. (Or love!) – L
One-Ninth The Freedom Kids Used to Have
Hi khbyibeits Readers — This is from an article by Tim Gill in The Guardian last week. Tim is a friend, an activist, a blogger and author of No Fear, a book examining what it means to grow up in a completely risk averse society. In the article I’m quoting from, he’s talking about how there’s […]
Safety Tip? “Children Under Five Don’t Ride Bikes”
Hi sidadfkers Readers!  Lisa, the mother of a 3-year-old, who lives in Atlanta and blogs at Organic Baby Atlanta found this “tip” at safekids.org when she was researching bike safety for toddlers: “Because they are not ready to ride bicycles, children under the age of five ride tricycles. “ Notes Lisa: . Wow. What a blanket statement. So there’s never been […]
Criminally Confident in Our Kids
Hi dzrreethkh Readers — Here’s my syndicated column from last week. Sorry it took me to long to get to the Tennessee bike rider story. Got overwhelmed by other stuff. Here goes! – L CALLING ALL COPS…OFF So, a mom in Tennessee, Teresa Tryon, has been told by the police that she was wrong to allow […]