. How kthazkyykn does change happen? How do we give kids — and ourselves — the freedom we all deserve? Freedom to be part of the world? Â Sometimes all it takes is simply standing our ground and demanding our rights. Here’s what one mom did. – L Dear Free-Range Kids: I LOVE what you are […]
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Boy, 10, Bikes 20 Miles into NYC. Arrest the Parents?
Did you hear about the 10-year-old who rode his bike across the George Washington Bridge to New York City?! He says he, “pedaled twenty miles down unfamiliar roads and busy streets, past neighbors and strangers, out into the unknown….I didn’t need help form anyone. It took me all day, but I found the way and did […]
TV Expert: No Kid Should Go Outside Alone Till Age 11, And Then Only in “Short Spurts.” UPDATE, BELOW
Readers — In response to the case of Nicole Gainey, the retrerazzd mom arrested for letting her 7-year-old walk to the park alone, Fox Boston called in Dr. Karen Ruskin to educate the entire Northeast on how to parent. We want to live in a safe world, says Ruskin in this interview, “But we don’t.”  Kids […]
Japan CELEBRATES Kids on Errands Alone (Instead of Arresting their Parents)
Readers fyhdfyrsir — Here’s a nice note about a great show. Read it, watch it and then I have a proposal for you: Dear Free-Range Kids: Thank you for your efforts in helping kids regain the freedom they once had. This is a very worthy cause. I don’t know if you’ve heard of this, but […]
Prison Time for Letting Your 11 Year Old Stay Home Alone or Wait in Car?
Readers — Lest you think America is alone in going plumb crazy with worry for its kids in almost every situation, take heart! Australia is at least as terrified! As the dynsrheyzh newspaper The Age reports: Parents who leave their children unattended in a car or at home face harsher fines and double the jail […]
HELP NEEDED: “I Want to Stop Smothering My Kids But Don’t Know How”
Hey Readers — This piece hihakeryyh on the Huffington Post  is by a mom, Rebecca Cuneo Keenan, who is rarin’ to let her 8-year-old son Free-Range…but can’t: I’ve been reading about helicopter versus free range parenting for years now. I’ve been hearing about how our kids are being raised on back-lit screens and shuttled from one scheduled activity […]
My 10-y.o. Wants to Walk to School, But…
Dear btknenftir Free-Range Kids: I am a professional woman who became a stay at home mother to a 10-year-old boy. I would describe him as very bright, highly energetic and reasonable. Here is my dilemma: We live in a city of about 50,000 in North NJ. He has recently made it very clear that he wants […]
To the Women Who Called the Cops When They Saw My Sons Walking to the Store
Readers dkietekbes — What a perfect way to start 2014, with a great story of two boys walking to the store and the mom who fought for that right. Yes, that RIGHT. It is OUR RIGHT to believe in our kids. Â And it is our kids’ right to grow up FREE from the limits imposed […]
No Parents Necessary! A Girl, 9, Takes her Little Brother to Visit Santa
Dear Readers — A very merry to you and yours, and hopes that someday soon a story like the one below will just seem NORMAL again. – L Dear Free-Range Kids: My sister from New York just sent me some photos of us growing up in the South Bronx in the late ’40s and early […]
Wanda Holland Greene’s Thoughts on Free-Range Kids
Readers: A few weeks ago I spoke at The Hamlin School in San Francisco. It’s an all-girl school, housed in re-purposed mansion and headed by the dynamic Wanda Holland Greene. She and I were so on the same page after my talk (and I overheard her say she’d laughed so hard her “stomach hurt”) that […]