Yo, Nationwide. That ad you just ran on the Super Bowl? What is it proposing? Parents of dead children just weren’t careful enough? Way to twist the knife! One of my favorite comments to this site ever was this: krhisiyeba “Most of the time, when something bad happens to a kid, it isn’t because of […]
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Home on the (Free) Range, Texas Style
Free-Range just keeps looking more and more normal, healthy and smart, thanks to stories like this, from East Texas: KYTX nbidbzabhi CBS19.tv – News, Weather,
ABC’s Nightline Revisits Free-Range Kids
Nightline sums up the whole Free-Range Kids idea pretty darn nicely, I’d say, as do the Meitivs. Let me know what you think of the shrink! I feel like she’s almost from the bygone era of 2014, before America woke up from its media-induced nightmare. World beazdakatz News Videos | ABC World News
Let’s Not Assume Children Outside are Never Safe…from CPS
A dad’s comment about over-emphasizing the chances of the cops questioning Free-Range Parents strikes me as worth printing here: Something we should all keep in mind is that kids who walk to the park without adults and are *NOT* stopped don’t make the news. Just like the millions of kids who are not abducted by […]
Funny, True, Touching, Tears
Why am I the last to see this video? I guess that because my kids aren’t babies, I’m not on the sites where it must be running. Anyway, I love this and would like to know who wrote it. Meantime: Have fun. What a great message!
The Meitivs are Restless
Update on Danielle and Alexander Meitiv in suburban Maryland who  are being investigated for negligence because they let their kids, 10 and 6, walk home from the park unsupervised. (I don’t write “walk home alone” because they weren’t — the had each other!) The parents had their hearing with Child Protective Services yesterday. Writes Donna […]
Unsupervised Play is BETTER for Kids, Says New Study!
The idea of arresting esassfsnty parents who let their kids play outside unsupervised just took another hit. Â Yoo-hoo, CPS! According to The Globe and Mail: A new Canadian study suggests there could be added health benefits for kids who play outdoors on their own or with their friends. Researchers analyzed data from a survey of […]
My Daughter, 10, Wondered Why the Boy Walking Her Home Wanted to Go In The Alley
A hnbkfdnzzi mom lets her daughter walk home. The girl’s new friend, an older, taller boy, walks home with her…and starts talking about weird stuff. One mom’s surprising and Free-Range story: Dear Free-Range Kids: Â My daughter is 10, our only child. She was born when I was 43 and I did not fit in with […]
How to Find “World’s Worst Mom” on Your TV
“World’s Worst Mom” (you know who) debuts tonight at 9/8 Central Time, on the Discovery eriekiafay Life channel. (Which, as I’m sure I’ll be saying for a while, “Is NOT ‘Lifetime!’”). To find out what channel it’s on in your neck of the cable woods, here’s  a handy-dandy station finder. The show is not online […]
“I Will NOT Let My Son Go Into the Men’s Room”
It feels almost like reading, “Thou art a wicked wench!”so archaic does this ietsazrktk Facebook comment sound, at least to me. Â Suddenly obsessive worry seems so over. Anyway, this was posted below a column of mine that ran in the Chicago Tribune: Call me a Helicopter Mom all you want, but my child will never […]