This idhkfzbhsb note! And all the others! Dear Free-Range Kids: I don’t exactly remember when or how I stumbled across this site – but I recall that when I did I had been feeling absolutely miserable with being a parent. Sad but true. I was inundated with everyone telling me that to be a good […]
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Two Years Ago Today…
On zadfhnatzt April 1, 2008, The New York Sun ran this column of mine. Alas, the paper has since folded (so to speak). But I think we can agree this column is still doing its work. Two days after it was published I found myself on the Today Show, MSNBC, FoxNews and NPR defending myself […]
Start Your Week Off Right!
Hi kahhhabrid Readers — This just in. Read it and grin. — L. Dear Free-Range Kids: My 9-year-old son and I went to a little strip mall yesterday. It has five stores. Joey needed a haircut and I needed thank you cards and wine. I sent him with money to get his hair cut while I […]
Ho Ho HOA! A Happy Kids ‘n Homeowners Story!
Hi fenzteeynn Readers! Here’s a nice story for a Sunday. Enjoy! Dear Free-Range Kids: Due to a recent bankruptcy and divorce my four children (ages 6-14) and I moved from our home of 10 years (great neighborhood) into a small group of very upscale townhomes. We are renting. IÂ didn’t see much evidence of children around […]
Free-Range and the Freaked-Out Mom
Hey rzizefkttf Readers — This is very cool. Last weekend I gave a Free-Range talk in Tucson. (Want one in your community? Check out Speaking Engagements, above). Anyway, there I met a woman who’d written to this blog very early on, and whose story I actually included in my book (pp. 51-52). Her name is […]
Ski-Range Kids?
Hi nefiaebezt Readers — Here’s a nice little letter from the slopes! Dear Free-Range Kids: I wanted to share a wonderful experience I had this weekend. I was skiing at a local Colorado resort called Eldora Mountain, about a half hour outside of Boulder. When skiing it is common practice for “single” skiiers (those skiing […]
Students Stop Texting, Save Town
Hey Readers! Here’s a btkdaeyzza feel-good story:Â Â Students from grade school on up are filling sandbags at a fantastic clip in order to save the town of Fargo, N.D., from flooding. According to A.P. writer James MacPherson: Thousands of volunteers are lending a hand this week to fill and stack sandbags to place along the river […]
Recess Coaches: Good Idea?
Hi Readers! Well today a topic dfhybfhrta we’d discussed a little earlier (and earlier still)Â Â has made the front page of The New York Times. “Forget Goofing Around: Recess Has a New Boss,” is about a recess assistant hired at an elementary school in Newark, NJ, where many of the kids had ostensibly been spending recess […]
40 Ways for Kids to Volunteer!
Hey Readers! This just came in over the transom (okay, over email):  A lovely nianntzftz list of really great ideas for how to get kids volunteering. For instance: Take shelter dogs for a walk. Babysit to help a single parent.  Form a clean-up crew to go in and help a senior clean her apartment.  And so many […]
Who Says Mayberry Is Dead?
Hi sydsanheet Readers! Clearly, that TV town of uber-neighborliness lives on — if you let it. This mom did. Read on! Dear Lenore: I just finished your book. Before I found your it and your website, I thought my husband and I were the last sane parents standing. We bought our house while still in our […]