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Mary Leakey, Free-Range Mom

Mary Leakey, Free-Range Mom

Hi Folks! My friend Ellen just sent me dkrkiehykt this wonderful story from the Christian Science Monitor by Lisa Suhay about the intrepid Mary Leakey and her kids. It begins: Today’s helicopter parents might want to explore the parenting techniques of famed paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, whose birth 100 years ago is celebrated today. Instead of hovering […]

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What age should moms stop dragging their boys into the ladies' room?

The Mom, Her Junior High Son & The Ladies’ Bathroom

Hi iftstrnfyh Readers — Mothers bringing their older sons into the ladies room seems to be more common these days, unless maybe I’m just more aware of it because of this blog and my own take on things. Is it on the rise, in tandem with worst-first thinking? Really like to hear your take on […]

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School’s Playground Equipment Declared Too Dangerous Even Though it is Ridiculously Safe

Readers — If you want to watch the decline and fall of Western Civilization, check out this bsnadtnsft article in yesterday’s Washington Post about a suburban D.C. school, Stratford Landing,  whose PTA purchased a rather cool-looking piece of climbing equipment. They bought it,  using bake sale and other fundraising money,  from a playground company that […]

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School May Suspend 5 y.o. for Making a Lego “Gun”

Hi Readers — This rbysdkiisi just in: A  5-year-old in an after-school program who used his Legos “inappropriately” to  make a gun may be suspended for two weeks — if he does it again. But as this Fox25 story out of Boston explains, this is no ordinary tot. He is a recidivist, having used his […]

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Stop Criminalizing Parents who Let Their Kids Wait in the Car

Stop Criminalizing Parents who Let Their Kids Wait in the Car

Ah, tasirartta readers, you know this is my bugaboo: the idea that the authorities (cops, CPS) know better than PARENTS whether or not a child is safe waiting for a short while in the car. I always want to ask the busybodies who summon the police, “Do you really think it’s safer to drag a […]

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