Oh my my my. This story hits me in the pit of my stomach and I’d love someone more tech-savvy than me to start a “HELPMATTHEW.COM” site like the one the mom started for her son Zachary, who was suspended for 45 days for bringing his Cub Scout eating utensil to school. This story is almost more unbelievable: Matthew is an Eagle Scout who studied CPR at age 12 and thus saved his aunt’s life when he was 13. That felt pretty good, so he took it upon himself to always be prepared to save lives. To this end,…
Author: lskenazy
Weren’t we just talking about how nice it is when administrators use their brains instead of following rules mindlessly? This just in: My dnhtreesie kid’s teacher asked for green beans and other canned goods for a day of cooking. When I sent them with my kid, she got in trouble because “cans aren’t allowed on the bus.”
Hi Readers! Remember the boy who was suspended for 45 days for bringing his Cub Scout fork/knife/spoon to school to eat his lunch with? Of course you do. Please. We were talking about it yesterday. And the day before. Anyway, here is some great, STRANGE news: After mere worldwide media exposure, including a front page story in the New York Times, the school has reversed its decision and decided NOT to send the 6-year-old to reform school. It’s almost as if they have come to believe that just because a kid brings what he considers a beloved new eating utensil…
Every parents’ fear — that their child will get lost, far from home, and come to harm — was turned on its head yesterday. I have a feeling it’s turned on tis head every day, actually, but how nice to read this story about strangers. It shouldn’t even be news: most humans care about children and want to help. But as long as we’re talking about kids, school buses and getting lost, it’s nice that a story like this gets some publicity. — Lenore
Hi Readers! Free-Rangers want their kids outside. Sometimes, though, those kids need equipment for their sports and sometimes they outgrow last year’s stuff dismayingly fast. Now comes this cool article about a mom in California who set up an on-line swap meet, kidsthatride.com, for all that equipment. You swap the stuff your kids have outgrown for the stuff other kids are just growing out of. It seems pretty local, but if the notion interests you, maybe you could start a web site in your neck of the woods, too. Either way, what a great idea, right? Let’s hear it for…
Yes, “Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry” is available on Kindle. Right here. For $13.18! The book Whoopi Goldberg said to read because “you’ll learn a lot, you’ll laugh a lot.” Can’t get better than that! Ok. Plug done. Back to our regularly scheduled blogging soon! — Lenore
Here he is, in all his nefariousness, the boy who brought his Cub Scout fork/knife/spoon to first grade lunch and got slapped with a 45-day suspension for it, as seen here with his mom and mom’s fiancee. The kid is so cute you just may cry.
Hi 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 selected based on talent, but on attitude and enthusiasm as well. They’re all good students, responsible, and respectable. It takes that type of kid to make it on the team. Although the softball season does not start until April, open practice has. The first day of…
Rest in peace, possibly, oh ye International 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 of English scouting since the 1920s are now threatened. Why? Well figure if you get 40,000 scouts together from a whole lot of countries, you need a whole lot of volunteers helping out. And if each of those volunteers needs to undergo…
No, not Sarah Silverman. A cute comic STRIP. About parenting. Sent to us by a US soldier stationed in Iraq. Voila!