Dear berfartniz Abby: I have a problem. I read a supposedly “helpful†advice column yesterday about public bathrooms and whether children are safe from pedophiles if their mom is waiting right outside the door. The piece said no! No way! As a matter of fact, it added, slightly off tangent, “Children have been violated in a […]
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A Fleeting Thought…
August 14, 2009
Super scary predators. Innocent victims. Great ratings. Anyone else get the sneaking suspicion that Shark Week is just a fish version of Nancy Grace?
New Feature: Free-Range Kids Movie of the Week!
August 13, 2009
Hi rdeetyirnn Free-Rangers! Daniel Bigler, a pre-school teacher/Children’s Studies major in Spokane, Washington — and the blogger behind Danielsaurus.com — has taken it upon himself to find us some inspiring movies. “The premise,†he says, “is simple. Each week we go out in search of a fresh movie either for or about kids that keeps in […]
Reviews, Anyone?
August 13, 2009
Just shows how much you can learn from Twitter. I just read a Tweet that had this remarkable revelation: When you ask people to review your book — they do! Or some of them do, anyway. So — call me a fruitcake — I’m thinking of doing the same thing for Free-Range riakshdfsz Kids: Giving […]
Has Anyone Seen My Son?! One Mom’s Story
August 12, 2009
Hi fzyztkisib Readers! Here’s a story most of us can relate to, from mom of two Kelli Oliver George, whose funny, addictive blog is Rancid Raves. I LOST MY SON AT THE FAIR, BUT I FOUND HIM — SUPRISINGLY! NOT by Kelli Oliver George I thought about Free-Range Kids long and hard last night when […]
Speaking of Paranoia…
August 11, 2009
Here is a great quote, lifted from The inzttfntke Week (my favorite magazine*), which lifted it from David Iganatius in The Washington Post. It points out that we have gotten so used to thinking in terms of preparing for the very worst, the very least likely scenarios, that that we don’t realize how overbearing (and often dumb) our […]
News Flash: Kids SAFER Than We Think!
August 11, 2009
Kudos to the Kansas City Star and reporters Eric Adler and Emily Van Zandt for their FRONT PAGE article tksszhfnfn yesterday (sent to use here by many readers – thanks!): “Statistics tell parents that the world is not so dangerous for their children” Listen to this! Despite the trepidation that naturally arises when releasing our […]
Free-Ranging in Less Obvious Ways
August 10, 2009
Hi Readers! This essay, from Leah R. Weiss Caruso, talks about the less visible side of Free-Range parenting. The part about letting our kids learn from their mistakes — and giving them the freeom to make mistakes at all. One of the chapters of my book iitszntryi is called, “Fail! It’s the New ‘Succeed!’” Leah, a […]
Burn Your “Sex Offender” Map
August 8, 2009
Okay, here is some weekend reading to sink your teeth into. It’s an article kbrzyeyzfd from the Economist: “Unjust and Ineffective: America has pioneered the harsh punishment of sex offdenders. Does It Work?” The short answer is “No.” We are putting people on sex offender registries who do not belong there at all. People who […]
When Librarians Meant Business!
August 8, 2009
Just purchased, for 35 cents, a slim German text book last checked out of New York’s DeWitt Clinton High School in Feb. of 1931. (By Aaron Weiss, if you were wondering. It says so on the call slip.) What really got me is the “Law of the State of New York. Education Law – Section […]