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Author: lskenazy
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Hi Folks! As you may know, I am now president of a non-profit, Let Grow, that hopes to get more Free-Range projects in the schools, more kids playing on their own, and more communities (well, even one) to pledge to support kids out and about. And that means that I am now blogging over there. I dearly hope you will join me. Right now, it’s true, the blog does not look so warm and homey. We are working on it. And, because it is new, it has some bugs. Like, at the moment, the home page is coming up half…
Hi folks! I’m mostly blogging at LetGrow.org these days — a paid job! a bigger platform! someday even an OFFICE! — so please click here and join the conversation!
Hi all! My latest post is up at Let Grow, about de-normalizing trick or treating. Hop over by clicking here. Thanks and Happy Halloween! – L. . .
Hi friends! Here’s my piece on Halloween-themed TV shows, over at Let Grow! See you there!
Readers: Starting today I am president of a new non-profit dedicated to the Free-Range ideals of giving kids — and parents — back their freedom. It’s calledLet Grow. I’d told a friend about this a few months back and she just informed me that now when her kids think she’s micro-managing them they actually use this phrase, “Mom, let grow!” So let’s hope it becomes a thing. Anyway, from now on, most days when you come to Free-Range Kids, you’ll find my newest posts are a click away, at Let Grow. I will include a link here each day I…
Can’t be too safe! Or…um… you can, if you follow every bit of this Halloween advice from a 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 choice — including decorative (colored) contact lenses and flammable costume — and face paint allergies can cause injuries that haunt you long after Halloween. [Remember, kids: Halloween isn’t fun. It’s an invitation to suffer unless you follow EVERY RULE.] Enjoy a safe and happy [!] Halloween by following these guidelines from FDA, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the…
Last week The New York Times ran a huge (even by New York Times’ standards) article 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 I countered a popular article that claimed the lack of play could be what lead the Vegas shooter to do his evil deed. I said that with 330,000,000 people in America and only one Vegas shooter, you couldn’t say that X always (or even often, or…
Zach Anderson’s tale is terrifying. It could happen to almost any of our sons, and even our daughters (like Shawna). 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 his home in Indiana, she back home in Michigan. Consensual sex between two teens 17 and 19 is not a crime. What Zach didn’t know is that the girl who said she was 17 was actually 14. If the victim lies about her age in…