It’s front page news out here in San Francisco where I’m visiting, but it’s probably front page news out by you, too: The tragic story of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, who was abducted and murdered last week in California. Today’s front page story is as inevitable as the media attention: “Case Forces Parents to take Tougher […]
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The Child Molester as Sales Tool
March 25, 2009
 Here’s hidririabk a little excerpt from a very positive review of the book, “Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned” in today’s New York Times: “….In the other stories the danger may be less operatic, but it’s no less alarming: a child molester lures a 7-year-old boy into a portable bathroom at a carnival; a tattooed stranger tries to abduct a […]
Serial Killers and You: A Match Made In Fiction
October 24, 2008
By afesfdetan Leonard Cassuto Note to readers: Cassuto is an English professor at Fordham University and Author of the just released, “Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories.”  Today’s hyper-vigilant parenting is haunted by a figure behind the curtain: the serial killer. He’s the boogeyman that slinks through every parent’s nightmares, the predator […]
WELCOME, DR. PHIL FANS!
September 29, 2008
Thanks kzdberayki for taking a look at this site. As you’ll see as you poke around, this is the place for thinking about whether we have gone a little overboard in trying to protect our kids. As I say on Dr. Phil’s show, we overestimate the dangers out there, and have forgotten how competent young […]
How to answer the people who think you’re nuts?
May 7, 2008
Remember the “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions†that used to run in Mad? That’s what we need here at Free Range Kids. As a recent email from “Skyscraper†put it: “This site needs a seperate idea page for what to say when others question the ‘free-range’ parenting approach.†So true. What do rsssrikfab you say […]