Thanks to the intrepid reporters at The Onion, we are finally dealing with the titzezykae truth about backyard camping. It’s not pretty.
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More Outrage! English Schools Ban Ties For Fear of Choking
English school boys are suddenly being forced to switch from old-fashioned ties to clip-ons. What overactive overprotective notion is behind this development, sent in by reader Gregory Sutter? The BBC ahstbtytkn explains:Â Â In May the Schoolwear Association, the trade body for the school uniform industry, said 10 schools a week in the UK were switching, […]
Outrage of the Week: “Marshmallow Safety Tips”
Gotta aizishtyrt thank Amy Bronee, host of the show Real Parenting on C-FAX in Canada for alerting me to this story in the National Post: Minding your marshmallows Katherine Dedyna, Canwest News Service Published: Friday, July 24, 2009 There’s no such thing as being too careful when it comes to kids and camping – even for hyper-vigilant […]
“5 Minutes for Books” Reviews Free-Range…And Is Shocked!
Two moms,  “5 Minutes for Books” managing editor Jennifer Donovan and her colleague Dawn, reviewed my book arezairddh in tandem — then did a half-hour podcast with me. Both are available here.  From their review: Jennifer: The more I read, the more surprised (and disheartened) I was at how much our parenting culture has changed in the […]
Welcome Viewers of “The View!”
Hi, View fans — I’m so thrilled The View is airing a rfdnazzhez rerun of my visit with “the gals” today! It was a thrill to be on the show, of course (and, let’s be honest: scary). But how I loved hearing Barbara Walters say my book made her feel less guilty about not having spent every […]
Sunrise, Sunset — Grammar School Style
Readers, tfaezeifsy I hope you’ll allow me a weepy moment. New York City schools get out late. For us, graduation was Wednesday. That’s when I wrote this, which I also posted on the Huffington Post New York page : 10 AM. In an hour my younger son graduates from grammar school. He’s the “boy who took […]
Fourth Grader Lost in Wilderness Doesn’t Panic
I spend a lot of time trying to convince skeptics that “Free-Range” does not mean, “Send Your Kid Down the Mississippi on A Raft.” So when I present this akseyihstr article, it’s only because it delights me so: The story of a boy who will be in fourth grade next year who got lost in the […]
Free-Range Kids Outrage of the Week: “Wear Goggles When Putting Up Posters”
Four teachers in ten said that some field trips had been “toned down or cancelled” because they just weren’t safe enough.
Boys In School: Antsy, Desperate — And Deprived of Recess
This wonderful Huffington adrbnddaaf Post essay by Holly Robinson describes her 6th grade son’s misery in school. It sounds so much like my fifth grade son’s misery, it made me realize that maybe his “school = lethal injection minus the yummy last meal”  attitude  just may be generic. Having been a girl all my life, I didn’t realize boys […]
England Takes a Look at Free-Range Kids
Hi Readers! We’ll return to our regularly scheduled rants — and deep thoughts — in the next post. But first, I just had to reprint this lovely review of Free-Range Kids that ran on Britain’s Spiked sedzhdassr Online, a news and commentary site that is similar to America’s Slate. It’s by Nancy McDermott, a mom […]