Can we say it again? Most people are good. Even the people who ring your doorbell. Here’s a teen who found a wallet with 00 in cash in it. As Inside Edition reports: Tyler Opdyke, 18, found the wallet in the driveway of a home in Sacramento, Calif. Surveillance video shows him approaching the home. The homeowner, Melissa Vang, didn’t want to open the door because he was a stranger. So the teenager held the wallet to the camera to make sure she knew the money was all still there. He then leaves it by the front door. “When I…
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Michael Hynes is the superintendent of the Patchogue-Medford School District on Long Island. As he confesses in this short and inspiring video, he loved school as a kid but gradually grew to hate it, and it’s only thanks to his love of tennis that he didn’t drop out. In fact, he hated school so much that he became a teacher, then a principal, and at last a superintendent with the power to reform. Hynes’ goal is redirecting schools away from test scores and toward the “whole child.” That might sound jargon-y, but it makes sense. Kids are not just brains…
These “close encounters” with near sex-traffickers are like alien abductions. They are shared wildly — gleefully — by people seemingly thrilled to know this horrible scourge is out there so they can be scared and angry. This latest story, from Reno, involves a mom and dad who noticed every detail about a night that sounds outrageously ordinary. They passed by some people they didn’t know! They went into the parking garage and there was a car — with people in it! They felt scared for their kids and compelled to write a Facebook post warning people everywhere about this terrible…
HEY! I forgot to add the video I made a few years ago about a cartwheel ban. Enjoy! . Yes, a school in Canada banned cartwheels. What’s worst about this is the school’s reasoning: Cartwheels have been banned at M.T. Davidson Public School in Callander. Cartwheels are not permitted on school property in the playground rules section of the school’s draft handbook for 2017-18. The rule came into effect this school year even though injuries have not been reported, principal Todd Gribbon admitted. “The activity can cause concussions, and neck and wrist injuries,” he said. True — an activity, including…
In this 9-minute video you’ll meet Shawna, an Oklahoma mom not allowed to play with her kids on the playground because of a “sex offense” she committed at age 19: She had consensual sex with a boy, 14. That was 15 years ago. She is on the registry for life, and registrants are banned from playgrounds. This short was made by David Feige, a public defender and documentarian. Below it I have excerpted some of what he wrote about Shawna and another “offender” you’d probably be proud to have as your son. Don’t read it if you can’t stand…
Looks like the Roseville, California, police department got a little fed up with social media posts going on about local “sex trafficking kidnappers” and “suspicious people.” And so it came out with this amazing document on its Facebook page: True facts about the fears its citizens feel and perpetuate. Kudos to a department that seems determined to do its job. If called, it will investigate. If not called, it will not conjecture about non crimes. And in the meantime, it will do what it can to counter a culture determined to freak out over fake danger. City of Roseville, California…
Frank Giaccio, an 11-year-old kid from Falls Church, VA, wrote a note to Pres. Trump saying he admired his business sense and had a business of his own: He mows lawns, $8 a pop. But it would be his “honor to mow the White House Lawn” as a volunteer. And he got the gig! So now there are pictures of him all over the Internet, mowing the Rose Garden lawn yesterday. And while he’s doing it, out comes the President to shake his hand, and he tells the President he wants to be a Navy Seal someday and it’s a…
How can you take educational matters into your own hands? Read on! Dear Free-Range Kids: Remember this post? We just sent our 2nd grader to public school for the first time and she came home with a reading log to be signed each day as well as signing that she practiced her spelling words. . We talked about it and decided to send the note to the teacher – almost word for word what was listed in the post including that we would be happy to have her sign her own paper. . Today the teacher called to say that…
It is heartening to remember what should be obvious but isn’t in our era of “Get it perfect” parenting. We don’t have to be perfect. In fact, no one is. And if kids NEEDED perfect parents, there would be no humans. So enjoy this video sent to us by the philosopher and commenter Donald Christensen, who runs the enlightening blog, onmysoapboxx.com. . .
Readers, you won’t believe what just happened! Oh, the poor parents! The poor child! The poor…viewers of ABC15! MESA, zeekkyektf AZ – Police in Mesa are investigating an incident where a man made contact with a child at a Walmart store. Pause to start counting how many times they use the word incident, and my rule of thumb when it comes to that word.* According to police, the incident happened shortly before 9 p.m. at a store near State Route 87 and Baseline Road. Police said a 3-year-old child was sitting in a shopping cart while the child’s family members…