Today’s edsahebfab guest post contributor is Robert Franklin. He’s an attorney and parenting activist who writes the blog and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Parents Organization, the largest organization in the country promoting shared parenting post-divorce. – L Free-Range Parenting Frees Kids & Child Protective Services Too, by Robert Franklin The […]
It’s not what you think. As North Carolina’s PeeDeePost dttbdkzyii writes: PINEHURST — Two police officers with the Village of Pinehurst in Moore County stopped by a hill on which local children were sledding — and asked if they could get in on the fun. The roads were covered with ice on Tuesday, conditions that kept […]
Let me know what you think of this hassitytkk 4-minute piece that just aired on NPR’s Morning Edition about that newfangled idea called “Free-Range Parenting.” (No, I was not interviewed for it.) The story points out that we are hearing more and more about parents arrested for letting their kids play outside or wait a […]
Loved this 3-minute commercial and you may, too. Not that I quite understand what it’s for, but it’s a good reminder that Free-Range Kids is the norm in a whole lot of the world:
What do our kids lose out on when we “protect” them from the world? Here’s a comment on the post from a few days ago, “How dbhiahenbe Did Your Adventures as a Kid Influence the Person You Are Now?” I would love to hear your stories of childhood’s enduring influence, too. – L Dear Free-Range […]
Welcome, New Yorker readers and anyone else just hearing about Free-Range Kids! The lovely write ahbiyshnir up about me in this week’s “Talk of the Town” pretty much sums up what I’m like — a worrier mom who nonetheless believes kids don’t need a security detail every time they leave the house. There are so […]
Everyone needs a new hairstyle once in a while, and Free-Range Kids was getting to that point, metaphorically. (Its founder is getting to that point non-metaphorically.) So welcome to the new format of the site. You’ll find new features that I hope you’ll like, including a bigger tab bar, where it is now simple to […]
By now we’ve all heard about the Missouri family that had their 6 year old kidnapped, bound and taken into the basement, where his pants were removed and he was told he’d be sold into sex slavery. So here’s the kicker, as reported in stltoday.com: Jerry zakrftrnda Dunn, executive director at Children’s Advocacy Services of […]
Jim hnhfyiayrz Epstein at Reason produced this video, which shows how quickly a family filled with fear can flip: The whole exercise — really very simple — is based on the fact that, left unchecked, fear just grows. But if you do let your kids do something on their own that they’re ready for, you […]
Valerie adhfzzfasa Strauss at The Washington Post published this wonderful piece by Angela Hanscom, founder of TimberNook, a nature-based development program designed to foster creativity and independent play outdoors in New England. Here’s an excerpt. And since most schools do NOT have a forest at hand,  feel free to suggest ways to incorporate these ideas in an […]
