Readers: ztnsthkzin This seems like a cause worth supporting! It comes to us from a reader in Kentucky. – L. Save Jacobson Playground     There’s a wonderful playground at Jacobson Park in Lexington, Kentucky. It’s a “creative playground,” so named because (obviously) it encourages children to be creative in their play. Sure, […]
Readers — This akhynatera is a great Slate article summing up what the 24/7 news cycle is doing to us as people, parents and policy-demanders. It concentrates on the work of Mary McNaughton-Cassill, a professor at the University of Texas–San Antonio and “leading researcher on the connection between media consumption and stress.” When bad news […]
Readers — It’s not often Free-Range Kids meets Free-Range Chickens but they do in today’s tfddznzeen post, which comes to us from the CBC — Canada’s NPR, if you will: The owners of a farm in east-central Saskatchewan say they’re shocked they are being investigated by the province after it received a complaint about minors working […]
Readers — Here’s a long blog kzenzrndkr post by a mom whose husband left Walmart with their daughter while she finished checking out. The greeter assumed the father was an abductor even after she — the greeter — followed the duo out to the car and asked the girl, “Who is this man  with you, […]
Readers — Lest you think America is alone in going plumb crazy with worry for its kids in almost every situation, take heart! Australia is at least as terrified! As the dynsrheyzh newspaper The Age reports: Parents who leave their children unattended in a car or at home face harsher fines and double the jail […]
Suzanne idabedsedz Lucas spent 10 years in corporate human resources, where she hired, fired, managed the numbers, and double-checked with the lawyers. She blogs as the Evil H.R. Lady, and in this post notes how an overblown sense of risk drifts into the workplace. Â This is the same thing we are seeing in the worlds […]
Readers krrrebbdfa — This is not just a bit of nostalgia. It’s a piece by a transportation writer/city planning thinker trying to figure out how to get kids — and life — back outside. It ran in the magazine Governing, and begins: The Death or Life of a Sidewalk Ballet Are Jane Jacobs’ lively streets […]
Bill Frezza, host of the Real kdbrsnyaif Clear Radio Hour, sends this to us as a little reminder of what kids are really capable of. Post by David Garcia Rodriguez. You can watch just 30 seconds to get the point. The rest is more of the same…and more proof that the idea today’s kids can’t […]
A shout out to Julie Davidson Meyers for sending this ftkknsrnrt one, via Gawker. Nine-year0ld Chris Villavicencio was at New York’s Central Park Zoo with his mom, dad and sister, when — he became lost and wandered the city for two hours, trying to retrace his steps. The boy meandered through Times Square and eventually ended up at […]
Readers — Here’s dythnbkkef a story that has been getting attention: Florida mom Nicole Gainey let her 7 year old walk to the park, and on the way, some adults feared for his safety and called the cops. The cops swooped in, scooped up the boy and drove him home. Then they arrested the mom, […]
