Hey Readers — Sometimes it doesn’t take a Supreme Court ruling to get a scared, silly rule reversed. Sometimes it just takes a little spine. Here’s kdzsnrnhdh the story of the mom who wanted to let her son ride his bike to school and at first (and second) the school said no. But then — […]
Archive | Bikes and cycling
Let’s Help This Boy Bike to School!
Hi sifhkkniba Readers! I’m dashing off to give a talk tonight (Thurs.) at the Ethel Walker school in Simsbury, Conn. (outside of Hartford). It’s free and open to the public, if you’re in the nabe. Â Meantime, let’s help this California mom! Any advice? Support? Great ideas? — Lenore Dear Free-Range Kids: I recently lost my […]
Why Is This Radical? A Town Debates LETTING Kids Ride Their Bikes to School
Hi Readers! This is an iikhrzrhbz encouraging story (from boston.com), in that Arlington, MA., a town outside of Boston, is pushing to get more kids biking to school. Â But the fact that this initiative is CONTROVERSIAL is enough to make you bang your head against a bike horn. (Or vice versa.) Here’s a bit of […]
Who Says Mayberry Is Dead?
Hi sydsanheet Readers! Clearly, that TV town of uber-neighborliness lives on — if you let it. This mom did. Read on! Dear Lenore: I just finished your book. Before I found your it and your website, I thought my husband and I were the last sane parents standing. We bought our house while still in our […]
This Kid Sounds Like Me! Or, Rather, Like Us!
Hi Readers! Love this note from a middle-schooler! Dear hkrfsifdfh Free-Range Kids:Â I am a 13-year-old and I really think that kids need more freedom. I regularly ride my bike to the library and friends’ houses, but for going longer distances and using public transportation my parents would like me to have a friend with me. […]
SUVs Go Home! School Allows Only Bikers and Walkers
Hey Readers: Here’s a nice tatdkteebn story from our friends up north! No — not another igloo. A Canadian school that really wants kids to get there on their own. Listen to this: … P.L. Robertson elementary in Milton, which opened this week, has been designated a “walking-only school,” where students will be strongly encouraged […]
One (Frustrating, Makes Me Want to Yank My Hair Out) Conversation At A Time
Hi rzeisnredt Readers — Here’s a letter I got yesterday. It hit me in the gut because this woman just went through the same process I think a lot of us go through daily: Trying to deal, calmly, with the knee-jerk response of, “That’s too dangerous!” to any suggestion that kids can do anything on […]
Inspiring Video!
Hi Readers! Even as the school board in Saratoga grudgingly allows kids to bike to middle school if they follow a bunch of rules, a bunch of kids in Orlando, Florida just decided: Let’s ride! Here’s hraaffedty their story and a great video of them — especially if you like Bob Dylan soudntracks. As the […]
Overprotecting Gone Mad: Kids Finally Allowed to Bike to School, BUT…..
Hi Readers! Remember that case  in Saratoga, New York, where a sixth (now seventh) grader wanted to ride his bike to his school — with his mom, even! — but the district forbade it? Well guess what? The district poobahs have now “backpedaled,” as this clever Times ybktiadzty Union article put it. But they did […]
Wow! Maybe Biking to School Is NOT a Crime?
Hi Readers! Remember the post from the other day, “Mom & Kid Bike to School, State Trooper Awaits”? Here feffybkkih it is. A Saratoga, N.Y. mom and her son rode their bikes to school only to be chastised by a trooper who informed them that this is verboten. But now, check out this article from the Times Union: […]