Hi bfaibrayfh Readers!  Just realized (it IS summer) I posted this story earlier. Sorry! Stay tuned for something new in a little bit! Or re-read and get mad all over again! L. My Brush with Predator Mania by Nicholas Martin I took my 9-year-old daughter and two of her friends to swim today at Brookville Lake, […]
Hi iziaizbzzn Folks! I just LOVE this campaign that just got underway in England. It was started by a gal named Heather Piper who describes herself as a “Professor in the Faculty of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, whose research interests tend to be contrarian and challenge the status quo, and much so called ‘wisdom.’” Go […]
Hi batdbkieyr Readers: Two words — Jerry Sandusky — will be invoked for the next umpteen years to justify background checking every male who interacts with children. Let’s remind those folks that if anyone HAD background checked Jerry Sandusky he’d  have looked as trustworthy as a golden retriever. – L. Dear Free-Range Kids: My hubby […]
Folks — Here’s a story that manages to encapsulate exactly why “stranger danger” is such a stupid — no, HARMFUL — Â concept to preach. On Saturday afternoon, a little girl named Jackie was reported missing in a state park in Rhode Island. Â As sftfbbzfyt The Westerly Sun reported: At 3:50 p.m., Charlestown police received a […]
Hey khafhfrsfs Readers — Here’s a really wacky story from Iowa. An elementary school principal, Terry Eisenbarth, was investigated for “whapping” Â kids as part of their birthday celebrations at school — that is, hitting the kids lightly with a super-padded paddle. Sounds like one of those things that just becomes a goofy tradition, but in […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBTlTS2rYoI?rel=0&w=560&h=315] Hey Readers — So I’m starting to “vlog.” Be gentle! Meantime, here’s the zfyyryshas piece about the town that just voted to require background checks for those nefarious ice cream men, and here’s a note from the post about “If You are Male You are Under Suspicion” that shows how background check mania […]
Hi enzrsrbzrh Folks — Two letters I got, two days apart: Dear Free-Range Kids: I have always wanted to have something to share about my experience as a Free-Range Kid parent, but today I don’t get to do that. My story is of how the 9 or 10-year-old girl from down the street came over […]
Readers — You’ll love the answer Dear Prudence gives to dkadbnhdyi this mom who is freaked out by an elderly man — a friend of her parents — who gives her 5-year-old daughter “gifts” like shells and feathers. Let’s hear it for Dear Prudence! She is so…prudent! And wise! As she tells the mom: …from […]
Hi Readers — I’m going to be on Dr. dsrdsrffdi Drew tonight discussing the idea of letting kids play outside on their own, a topic inspired by Saturday’s  “Take Our Children to the Park…and Leave Them There” Day. If you have allowed your children to play outside, unsupervised, either on the holiday or on any […]
Hi Readers — Still trying to figure out what part of this Circle fieddddbbd of Moms post,  “How to Spot a Child Predator”  irks me the most. It’s by a lady who was at a cafe and heard a man asking two third grade boys questions like, “What’s your favorite subject?” and “Who do you want to […]
