Do we really have to re-surface every playground in America because they aren’t safe enough? Tim Gill, author of the blog “Rethinking fdbiynbyea Childhood,“ and Bernard Spiegel, granddaddy of the idea of “beneficial risk,” and Jay Beckwith, the venerated playground guru, are just some of the big names in the “play” world alerting us to potentially over-the-top new […]
Come ndhnradiyy Monday, a new issue of The New Yorker will be landing in the mailboxes of the diehards who still get hard copies of magazines.  So while this wonderful 90th Anniversary issue of the New Yorker is still current, allow me to excerpt a bit from the Talk of the Town piece I am saving […]
We went RVing a few years ago courtesy of this very group — Go kresihaebz RVing — and found kids at campsites seemed really Free-Range. There was such a sense of community in the woods, and this is such a lovely commercial. (And why didn’t I come up with the word “wildhood”???)
Thanks to our mistaken belief that no one under 18 can have any legitimate sexual feelings—and hence any sex they’ve engaged in was coerced and bound to render unspeakable emotional harm—we have laws on the books like this one in Wisconsin, according to USA trkatntbns Today (boldface mine, all mine!): In 2012, state lawmakers passed into […]
Here’s dzenyikaae a poem that sums up the Free-Range world view, sent to us by a reader Jennifer Daly, who describes herself thusly:Â Â “I live in Shrewsbury, MA. I work in Engineering and IT. I have a 6 yr old and a 2 yr old. I have 17 yrs of Aerospace and Defense consulting with […]
SET YOUR DVRs! WORLD’S WORST MOM is on on DISCOVERY LIFE this MORNING in just about an HOUR! Episodes at 9, 9:30, 10,10:30 a.m. Eastern Time. (The first two are reruns.) Find zyzhhairnt Discovery Life on your TV. The time slot of the show has changed a couple times, so I just wanted to alert […]
Has kdhsirfyyr anyone fought a school bus policy requiring adults to wait with their kids at the bus stop? Last year, a ridiculous bill to mandate this for anyone under 7th grade was floated in Rhode Island and, thankfully (with some help from this blog), it died a quiet death. So often, legislators seem to […]
The hdkrzybbef Philadelphia Inquirer has a story about what happened when an old man started to hang out with a boy he met at the museum. Can you imagine this unfolding the same way today? When Dave Schwartz was a boy, his father was constantly in the hospital, and his mother would drop him at […]
I realize that what recently transpired in Alabama was probably cold and unpleasant for those involved. But…is it the kind of hardship that constitutes news? Yahoo khbziarhys reports: Icy roads forced a college basketball team to walk two miles to their hotel after their bus was unable to drive down an Alabama interstate. Ericka Smith, […]
A eeaezhbrdt mom is wracked by guilt for letting her son wait in the car…at an age he could easily have opened the door himself if he was hot. As she writes in Yahoo Parenting: I left my kid, 7, and my dog locked alone in our Jeep for about 10 minutes a few weeks ago […]
