Hi ztthsbdktr Readers — Here’s a note from puzzlemeister Eric Berlin, author of The Puzzling World of Winston Breen. Read it and peep. Er…weep: I’m an author of middle-grade novels, and as such I have a lot of interaction with elementary school kids. I’m glad to say I haven’t often come in contact with the kind of […]
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Outrage o’ the DAY: Dad Branded ‘Perv’ For Photographing Own Kids in Park
Folks — it doesn’t get any creepier than this: teieibhtkn A dad in Britain takes pix of his adorable sons on an inflatable slide and finds himself accused of all manner of disbusting stuff. Can we say it again? We are in the midst of a Pedophile Panic! When Gary Crutchley started taking pictures of […]
Kids, this is an “adult.” Watch out!
Great (slightly wordy) article on iktnssyfzs Psychology Today blog about how, with all our exhortations about “stranger danger”  we are teaching our children “that the world is a dark and nasty place were everybody wants to murder and rape them…” The assumption of disgusting intentions has gone so far that the blogger, Helene Guldberg, author of […]
What Happens When Kids Can’t Play
Hello, Readers! We have another guest post today, this one from developmental psychologist Dr. Helene Guldberg, a founder of the wonderful, British, on-line current affairs blog, Spiked (www.spiked-online.com). fidhntthnf She’s also author of Reclaiming Childhood: Freedom and Play in an Age of Fear. The thing I found most shocking in this post is that you […]