And A Lovely Free-Range Anniversary Present

This idhkfzbhsb note! And all the others! Dear Free-Range Kids: I don’t exactly remember when or how I stumbled across this site – but I recall that when I did I had been feeling absolutely miserable with being a parent.  Sad but true.  I was inundated with everyone telling me that to be a good […]

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Two Years Ago Today…

On zadfhnatzt April 1, 2008, The New York Sun ran this column of mine. Alas, the paper has since folded (so to speak). But I think we can agree this column is still doing its work. Two days after it was published I found myself on the Today Show, MSNBC, FoxNews and NPR defending myself […]

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Just When You Thought Free-Range Kids Was Catching On...

Just When You Thought Free-Range Kids Was Catching On…

Hi Readers — Here’s a link rfhyszsnbe to my essay on ParentDish, “Can a Mom Leave Her Kid Alone at the Library for Three Minutes?” It’s about a mom who left her kid in the children’s room to run upstairs and check out a book in the adult department. She told the librarian she’d be […]

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Lady Helps Boy Down from Tree, School Accuses Her of "Trespassing"

Lady Helps Boy Down from Tree, School Accuses Her of “Trespassing”

Dear Readers: This iraitrzzdd one just proves what monkeys we become when we refuse to use our brains (or tails). A 5-year-old boy in England climbed up a tree at the end of recess. Fine. But rather than helping — or even ordering — him down, the teachers followed their “health and safety” guidelines…and left […]

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Start Your Week Off Right!

Hi kahhhabrid Readers — This just in. Read it and grin. — L. Dear Free-Range Kids: My 9-year-old son and I went to a little strip mall yesterday. It has five stores. Joey needed a haircut and I needed thank you cards and wine. I sent him with money to get his hair cut while I […]

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Lessons from The Baby-sitters Club

Hi Folks! Here’s a lovely hbdyasdabt essay by The Wall Street Journal’s Laura Vanderkam about, well, the cultural significance of The Baby-sitters Club. Yes, I know how ridiculous (or at least American Studies for Dummies) that sounds. And yet — you don’t sell 176 million copies of any series without making some kind of impression […]

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