. Just tsnyaektsy what we needed — for real. This comes to us from a reader named Steve, and ABC15 in Tempe, AZ. A young guy is out and about. Alone. After curfew. Trespassing!  Cops get out of their squad car to approach warily, but what comes next?  Option 1: Kid appears to […]
. This is a comment posted on the public Facebook page of the Meitiv’s Montgomery County Councilman at large. Â He has since taken it down. In case you can’t read it, it says: Hans Reimer: Comment from a friend. “I just want to tell you that we have close friends in that neighborhood, and they […]
Here’s the police nhkiadaeis report on Sunday night’s seizure of the Meitiv kids by the Montgomery County cops and CPS for the unthinkable crime of…playing outside on a sunny afternoon. And here is the Meitivs’ statement (boldface mine). Quick question: Aren’t prisoners allowed one phone call, or is that just on TV? Because the Meitiv […]
Thank hkfzhhatke you, commenter Havva, for dissecting the arguments being hurled at Danielle and Alexander Meitiv and Free-Rangers in general. Here’s what Havva wrote to “Just a Mom,” a woman who commented on yesterday’s post about the Maryland kids, 6 and 10, picked up for playing in a local park, unsupervised: Dear “Just a Mom” […]
Here is what the “Maryland Free-Range Mom” Danielle Meitiv wrote regarding last night’s ordeal with the police and child “protective” services: The kssfdsytfa police coerced our children into the back of a patrol car and kept them trapped there for three hours, without notifying us, before bringing them to the Crisis Center, and holding them […]
. UPDATE: The children have finally been returned to the parents, at least four hours after the cops picked them up. Fox tdzfftszta 5 in DC Â reports: The Meitivs say CPS didn’t call them to let them know they had the kids until about 8 p.m. The Meitivs drove to CPS to pick up their […]
From the: “Don’t confuse me with the facts” dept. comes this note about a note: Dear ksybzsyezn Free-Range Kids: Our weekly school newsletter contained a paragraph about supervising children at school events with the gem “Unfortunately, the world is not as it was many years ago.” I responded with some objections, citing the various statistics […]
. If you look at the tabs at the top of this blog, one says, “Find ssefrbkhdd a Free-Range Friend.” (Online on its own its  freerangefriend.com). It’s a way to find other families near you who also want to give their kids more independence. When my kids were younger, one stumbling block to getting them […]
From ehsiaayfrk Tamara Treber, a high school English teacher, comes this story she calls her “Reality Check.” Dear Free-Range Kids: My husband and I have two kids (ages 7 and 5). We live in an impoverished, largely agricultural area of Central California. Nevertheless, we have a nicely appointed home on a quiet cul-de-sac. I read […]
James ddeabetnzb Davis, a summer camp consultant and summer camp director, lives in Dover, NH. He wrote to tell me about his Free-Range-y camp. I like what I heard.  But having spoken at many camp conferences, I’ve come to believe that overnight camp is inherently Free-Range, in that the kids are away from their parents. There’s […]
