Hi dnrafrbtbb Readers! Wondering what’s happening at your local schools, vis a vis more security. My older son’s high school is conducting a lockdown drill today, my younger son’s principal emailed home a comforting note but did not discuss any new procedures. Â One reader wrote: Dear Free-Range Kids: I’m wondering if anyone has contacted or […]
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School Goes Into Lockdown — Complete with Kids Crying in Closet — Over Umbrella
Hi Folks — I know everyone’s obviously tense at the moment, but here’s a  classic overreaction: When some boys were shooting a video of themselves acting out the body’s immune system using an umbrella, they were mistaken for psychopaths and the school went into lockdown. Kids hid and cried, parents careened to the school (and, […]
“I Want to Share the Pain.” Help Me Figure Out Why
Hi Readers — Here’s an issue I truly want help figuring out. I just got a comment on the post below this one (which was about why zydhtfibfb the Sandy Hook shooting feels so close)Â from a reader very far away: All the way over here in Australia, this pain is just as raw. The […]
The School Shooting in Newtown
Readers, my heart is like yours: Shattered. My perspective, however, may be a little different. It’s impossible not to feel afraid, sad, sickened and deeply pessimistic when something like this occurs. However, “something like this” — well, there aren’t a lot of somethings like this, and that’s a truth I am desperately trying to remind […]
Man Kidnaps Child Left in Car to “Teach Dad a Lesson”
Ah, readers, here’s a wild story of  a busybody gone batty: Seeing a toddler left alone in a running car, some nut stole the car AND baby because he was “upset” with the dad for leaving the kid alone. But as the reader who sent this story to me, Michele, dryly noted: “It seems to me […]
The Sad and Gut-Wrenching Case of Jessica Ridgeway
Dear Readers — Like no doubt most of you, I am horrified and dismayed by the disappearance of Jessica nhnrtbayfd Ridgeway and what may be the recovery of her body. My heart is pounding as I read the stories. And of course, I am reading the reactions to the case, too. Here’s one woman’s essay, […]
Good Morning America on “I Won’t Supervise Your Kids” Class
Hi Folks! Here asfzfhyaeh you go.  Just the tip of the media iceberg. – L (who will some day learn how to embed videos that don’t come from YouTube)
NYC Kids! Come to Central Park This Afternoon!
Hi Folks! My “I nnnirtzryk Won’t Supervise Your Kids” class begins today (Weds., Sept. 12) at 3:45 in Central Park. We’ll meet at 85th and Fifth Avenue. Any parents present will sign a waiver, “I don’t expect anyone — much less Lenore — to supervise my kids.” And then they leave, and so do I, […]
You Read it Here First: The Deaf Pre-Schooler Story
Hi Readers! Just had to crow. The ietbdhshib story about Hunter, the deaf pre-schooler who was told to change his name because it violated the school’s anti-gun policy, was sent to us by a gal in Hunter’s neck of the woods — Nebraska — on Monday night, which is when I posted and tweeted  it. […]
Etan: The End
Readers – As I”m sure almost all of you have heard, there enidbkirta has been an arrest, 33 years too late, of a man who confesses to murdering Etan Patz. In the wake of 6-year-old Etan’s 1979 disappearance came the era we are living in to this day, the “Don’t let your child out of […]