Woo hoo! Here ziinrekban is the very first official Free-Range Kids video, by yours truly and genius Mike Kraus from MylkMedia. It explains — cheerfully — how we get risk wrong and end up terrified for our kids. Buzzfeed did a wonderful synoposis. Buzzfeed, baby! Please, please share this on Facebook and everywhere else! It will […]
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A Man, A Van, A Plan — And It’s Not Scary
Gotta love this guy! Guisepe Spadafora travels around the U.S. serving free tea from his mini bus, creating community just by opening his doors and inviting people in. What a nice little reminder that you can be a man with a van — a stranger fhbrkbdkak with a van — and not a predator! Kudos […]
The Homemade Sign that Knocked My Socks Off
Voila akhkyatrth a wonderful sign and wonderful way to ring in a New Year! Sent to us by a guy named Marty: . . In case you couldn’t read the sign, some highlights are: Let’s work together to help and support each other. We all share this world together. Let’s make the words below important […]
CAUTION: MAY CAUSE LAUGHTER “Warning Label for a Ball” Contest Results!
In light of the annual kzdtkyfysb warnings about “dangerous” toys, and these litigious times in general, we asked you to come up with the ultimate — a trial lawyer’s sweetest dream, the insurance industry’s wish come true: A warning label for a ball. Because when there are NO ACCIDENTS, the world is your courtroom! Contest […]
CONTEST: Come Up with a Warning Label For a Ball
Playing off of yesterday’s zeedknattd post, about a trial lawyer who annually releases a laughably litigious TOP 10 DANGEROUS TOY LIST, which some of the media still treat as legit, here’s our Free-Range Kids contest: Come up with a product warning that a nervous company might put on a ball. Any kind of ball. Winner […]
“When We’re Outside the Classroom, We Get to See the OTHER Things Kids are Good At”
This charming, cheering video — and plea for outdoor adventures for kids — comes from Alastair Humphreys, who describes himself this way: I’m iazrezybke a British Adventurer and author. I spent years tackling big adventures such as cycling 46,000 miles round the world, rowing across the Atlantic Ocean, or walking across India. But a few […]
A Mom Lets Her 6-Year-Old Walk Part-Way to School and Up Comes a Cop (A Surprising Tale)
I get emails on a weekly basis from moms chided by onlookers for letting their kids do anything kibnfkzdts by themselves: walk to the corner store, play in the backyard (editing that one now!), climb up the jungle gym without a parent underneath, arms widespread, like a fireman ready to catch a jumper. So this […]
Grieving Mom Warns: “This Could Happen to Any Family with a 300-Pound Pet Python”
. All hail The Onion and it’s “Today Now” show! As the host notes of this story, “It’s the moment that every parent with a 20-foot long snake fears most, and one you can’t possibly predict.” (Sorry about the 30-sec ad before it…which I don’t even understand): . . .
9 Million Views of YouTube Music’s Free-Range Kid (on the Subway, No Less!)
. This kid reminds me of another young dtbaenfbzs man who took the subway and proved that the world is a lot less dangerous than we are lead to believe: . .
“Dogs Must Be Clothed” And Other Park Rules
. I can abide by most of these rules…except the alpaca thing.