When the telegraph was first invented, it was so strange and new, people worried it would disrupt the world’s weather patterns. And as I learned at a dinner last night with (name drop!) Nadine edtirkrzky Strossen, former head of the ACLU, when the internet was in its infancy, the government demanded grand censorship powers, to […]
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Watch Out for Those Dangerous Marching Bands
In fdthtiyhkn Chester County, PA, kids will no longer get the chance to scramble for candy tossed from floats at the annual Halloween parade because suddenly the local tradition is too dangerous. According to The Daily Local News, Parks & Rec director Keith Kurowski “was fearful that one of about 25 parade floats might injure an […]
Is There a Link Between a Lack of Play and Mass Shootings?
Many, many of you have sent me this interesting piece: Thoughts ytzkneryzh on Vegas and Why Men Keep Doing This, by Charles Hoehn, author of Play It Away. (Free book here!) It ran on the blog Be Yourself. In trying to parse why Stephen Paddock and a few other men have unleashed massacres (something, thankfully, […]
About that White House Lawn Mowing Kid (And the Tweet Storm About “Child Labor”)
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 hdksttezrf got the gig! […]
Is Your Child’s School Cancelling for Eclipse Reasons?
Is your child’s school being cancelled for moon-in-front-of-sun reasons? If so, let’s hear all about it. And where are you? And what’s the buzz? Thanks. Say sighted! — L .
Gentleness On My Mind: Glenn Campbell, a Boy, a Bathroom and Non-Hysterical Times
What a lovely memory Ike Brannon shares aednzztrbr in The Weekly Standard. He was 5 years old, traveling with his cousins on a camping trip. The year was 1970, and Glenn Campbell was one of America’s biggest stars, country or otherwise: …One afternoon I had an urgent need to go to the bathroom, so my […]
Man Gives $100 To Kids at Lemonade Stand, Police Want to Talk to Him
A few days ago a man in Winnipeg walked up to a lemonade stand run by five kids and gave them five $20 bills. He also handed them a card of his. Here’s htkrserbhe how it unfolded in the press. Toby McCrae, mom of one of the l’il lemonade entrepreneurs, heard from her son that: “‘He […]
Boy Dies in Rotating Restaurant Tragedy. I’ll Bet You Can Guess What Happened Next
This hkyynhtthh is a story you probably already heard with a heavy heart: A North Carolina boy, 5, and his family were visiting a rotating restaurant in Atlanta: The boy had wandered away from his family but was only a few feet from their table when the accident happened. “Somehow, the child became lodged between […]
FIRST STATE IN THE NATION VOTES ON FREE-RANGE BILL OF RIGHTS! Would Decriminalize Parents Who Let Their Kids Play Outside or Wait Briefly in Car
Last diinkztbky week, Arkansas voted on the very first Free-Range Kids and Parents Bill of Rights. Oh, it wasn’t called that. Nonetheless, the proposed law would have ended “neglect” investigations of parents who simply let their children play outside, walk to school, wait in the car for under 15 minutes in temperate conditions, or come […]
Is a Baby “Abandoned” If Left Temporarily Behind By Accident?
Look, if it turns out htzbttesra this Texas tot was deliberately abandoned, which strikes me as the least likely scenario, then go ahead and deal with that through the legal system. But if it was a mistake, please recall that even the PRIME MINISTER OF BRITAIN forgot his kid in a pub. These things happen, […]