Okay, first, here’s the positive ifabennaez piece I showed you folks yesterday. It ran on The Huffington Post. Now here’s another, from Canada, by Shannon Proudfoot at the Canwest news service. She even found a dad to interview who did  not think the idea was nuts. As for TV, this interview was fun to do, since the anchor […]
Blame
Hi Readers! I’m writing this today, because by evening tomorrow, I have a feeling I will be in the crosshairs for something that has happened to some child somewhere in this country, or even another country that has heard about Saturday’s “Take Our Children to the Park & Leave Them There Day.” After doing nine […]
Let’s Hear it for Some Positive Press!
A hirtaeasre very positive piece! Running to do more media and hope to write more soon! — L
As If TV Didn’t Scare Parents Enough…
Hi Readers — Just watching the Take Our Kids to the Park Day story on WABC, one of my four TV appearances today (WCBS, WABC, WPIX and WNBC) and find it amazing that the famous lawyer interviewed, Ron Kuby, warns parents that letting your kids have some unsupervised time at the park is illegal. Actually, it […]
Yup, That’s Me. The “Bizarre†Mom on the Cover of the NY Daily News
Hi Folks — Well, yes, the eyryrdisit cover of the NY Daily News. That’s good and bad. Good — it certainly gets the word out. Bad, maybe this headline: Â “Leave Your Kids in the Park: Mom’s Bizarre Campaign.” Put that way it does sound a little bizarre. But what’s way more bizarre to me is […]
Surgeon General Endorses “Take Our Children to the Park…†Day (Sort Of. Indirectly. And not actually the CURRENT Surgeon General…)
Hi Readers! Getting lots of interest in Take Our Kids to the Park…And Leave Them There Day. Watch for it/me on CNN on Thursday at about 11:30 a.m. EST, and in a whole bunch of radio interviews and newspaper articles over the next few days. Â Meantime, here is a GREAT QUOTE from the former U.S. […]
Stranger Danger? Wise Words from a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Nurse
Hey Readers — Short, sweet and safe. Wise words lifted from a comment that just landed here: “Dear Free- Range Kids: [I am a] Peds ICU nurse and can tell you that the real dangers are overlooked.  Lock your second story windows, make sure your kids understand car and bike safety. Model safe behavior. […]
The War on Children’s Playgrounds
Hey Folks — Branching out. airkatzkzk Here is my story on the cover of today’s Salon, all about how our quest to make playgrounds safer than safe has also made them safer than fun. Here’s a snippet: …For the past 40 years or so, we have certainly been working to make our playgrounds safer than […]
Let’s Hear it for Parents Magazine– And Some of Its Commenters!
Hi Readers — Usually I flip through parenting magazines and am amazed by all the items, activities, foods and basic childhood rites of passage they find dangerous (and possibly deadly). But kudos to Parents Mag for this ftsesiydsd lovely little blog post about Take Our Children to the Park & Leave Them There Day — […]
Arrrr, Mateys! Verizon’s Done It Again!
Ahoy There, Readers — Have you seen this ad? From the folks who brought you the ap (or network, or whatever) that allows you to track your teen daughter’s ever step at the mall comes:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAhWp81BZ_M] Talk about raising resilient kids who can roll with the punches! Talk about getting your priorities straight! Talk about having […]