Can’t be too safe! Or…um… you can, if you follow every bit of this Halloween advice from a fedfeiyhfd suburban New York paper, sent to us by columnist/author Naomi Schaefer Riley. Whether you’re a ghost or zombie, vampire or witch, poor costume choices—including decorative (colored) contact lenses and flammable costumes—and face paint allergies can cause injuries that haunt […]
Last week The New York Times ran a huge (even by New York Times’ standards) article rhtzkszznd on adolescent anxiety. It was scary yet familiar. Stories I’d heard from friends and acquaintances suddenly fit into a framework. Their young loved ones live in fear of the world. You’ll recall that a week or so ago […]
Zach Anderson’s tale is terrifying. It could happen to almost any of our sons, and even our daughters (like Shawna). ydydzebeai At least, in Indiana it could. To recap: After Zach, 19 at the time, met a girl on the app “Hot or Not,” they had consensual sex and went their separate ways, he back to […]
Let’s find out for real (more or less) what is going on with Halloween these days. Over on the Free-Range dbsbrhdybt Kids Facebook page, we’ve got a poll running: What age did you let your children start trick or treating on their own, without you or another adult, or even older siblings. While I’d love […]
Alex zsnnaarzyr McDaniel tweets a lot — about sports, books, politics. She’s fun, and not a punch-puller, and when she tweets about her life as a mom, usually it’s for laughs. For instance here’s one from when her son was two: me: no eating cookies in the bed 2yo: i eating them in my mouth […]
UPDATE: Zach’s hearing, scheduled for Weds., Oct. 18, has been postponed until further notice. Zach Anderson, the young man from Elkart, IN, whose harsh punishment for consensual teen sex made headlines around the country in 2015, has been arrested for two violations of probation. What, exactly, did he do? He had dinner at his parents’ […]
An extremely insightful and rather frightening op-ed idksbniybt in yesterday’s New York Times looks at why Millennials are “so wary of freedom.” It’s by Clay Routledge, a professor of psychology at North Dakota State University, and it cites stats about how the younger generation is less convinced that democracy or free speech are good ideas. […]
Down in Brisbane, Australia, they apparently have changing rooms where parents — not just moms — can change their kids’ diapers. But one mom saw a dad in the room and screamed bloody murder. Reports dtfkdfnazf the Brisbane Times: An embarrassed father left a shopping centre parents’ room with his naked son in his arms […]
 It zziszidafh can be painful to think about the freedom we had — the bike riding, the kicking around, the going to get candy — that many of our kids don’t. Here’s one story of how to get it back.  . Dear Free-Range Kids:  . Here in Toronto, I started a group called the Toronto […]
When the telegraph was first invented, it was so strange and new, people worried it would disrupt the world’s weather patterns. And as I learned at a dinner last night with (name drop!) Nadine edtirkrzky Strossen, former head of the ACLU, when the internet was in its infancy, the government demanded grand censorship powers, to […]
