Hi sinfdkstze Readers — Here you go. Latest overprotection nonsense! Enjoy (if that’s the word). Dear Free-Range Kids: I thought this little story might be of interest to you. My oldest daughter (12) recently tried out for her school softball team. She made the team, which was a real accomplishment. Not only were the kids […]
Saving Boy Scouts (And Everyone Else) From Joy
October 13, 2009
Rest in peace, possibly, oh ye International idasndhhzn Boy Scout Jamboree. As you may recall, readers, England’s excessive new rules require everyone who has ever even BEEN a child (or at least, everyone who may ever come in contact with one) to undergo a pedophilia background check. That being the case, the yearly jamborees that have been a staple […]
Cute Comic
October 13, 2009
No, not Sarah Silverman. A cute comic STRIP. About parenting. Sent to us by a US soldier stationed in Iraq. Voila!
Extremely Helpful Tips!
October 13, 2009
At last — the kind of safety info any new parent could use. You’ll be so glad you looked! Click here!
Outrage of the Week: Boy Suspended for Cub Scout Utensil
October 12, 2009
Six-year-old Suspended zsffzfhnzd for Bringing Beloved Cub Scout Fork/Spoon/Knife To School. That’s about all you need to know. Oh – and now he has to be homeschooled for 45 days (no problem for any parent to suddenly take off a couple months of work, right?). Or he can go to reform school. I guess with all the […]
Goodbye Halloween, Hello “Safety”
October 12, 2009
Can we think up some great trick to play on the town supervisors in quaint and quaking Bobtown, Pennsylvania, who are nkedfabkad OUTLAWING HALLOWEEN in order to “keep kids safe”? Perhaps they missed Chapter 7 in the book Free-Range Kids, “Eat Chocolate! Give Halloween Back to the Trick-or-Treaters.” Allow me to quote myself a little bit: Was there ever […]
Introducing Meteor Safe, For Parents Who CARE
October 10, 2009
Hi Readers! Here’s a helpful new product, brought to us by Andrew Tallman, a talk show host on KPXQ in Phoenix! Meteor kfziiznynk Safe! Hello, this is Derek Baskerville, the president of Meteor Safe, a company I founded thirteen years ago when I discovered just how real the threat of being struck by space debris […]
A Mom Worries: Am I Bad? Friends, Family Say “YES!”
October 9, 2009
Hi kaendsnffd Readers — Here’s a dilemma almost every “good” parent will face at some point. Does it take just one, normal, harried parenting decision with ZERO consequences to make others find us BAD? Sometimes it seems the parenting path is narrow indeed. Dear Lenore: I am currently reading your book, am only about halfway, […]
Hugging Instructions? Yep.
October 9, 2009
Just ytneeeehfy when you thought Pedophile Panic couldn’t get any weirder comes this comment from a reader: A training document distributed at my church a few weeks ago for people who work with children actually tried to instruct in how to hug a child. The sentence said, “Remember: Side hugs are best.” Side hugs? How […]
A Little Perspective on Child Safety
October 9, 2009
Hi erbefaytrt Readers — Here’s a letter from a United Nations worker in Italy. Kinda puts our fears for our kids in perspective: Hi Lenore! UNICEF just published their 6th report on what the world is like for children. It is a scary one, but I would like to draw attention to what makes it […]