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Extremely Helpful Tips!
At last — the kind of safety info any new parent could use. You’ll be so glad you looked! Click here!
TV Producer Seeking ANTI “Free Range Kids” Parents!!
Hi Readers — Yes, I know, most of us congregate here because we believe that kids don’t need quite as much bubblewrap as our society deems fit. But if you or someone you know believes that to let your children walk to school, or wait in the car while you get a gallon of milk, […]
Plan a “Walk to School Day” For Next Weds.
Hi Readers! This coming Weds., Oct. 6 is Walk to School Day. I know, I know — it’s sad we have to actually PLANÂ what should be an everyday occurence. What next, Brush Your Teeth Day? Put The Toilet Seat Down Day? (Though come to think of it…) But anyway, here’s the official rfttttshkf link to […]
On Second Glance…
Sometimes the boogey man is just that, as these parents found out: http://img29.imageshack.us/i/securedownloadbon.jpg/
Reviews, Anyone?
Just shows how much you can learn from Twitter. I just read a Tweet that had this remarkable revelation: When you ask people to review your book — they do! Or some of them do, anyway. So — call me a fruitcake — I’m thinking of doing the same thing for Free-Range riakshdfsz Kids: Giving […]
A New York Times columnist on Why Kids Need to Lick Slugs
And basically get outdoors, if only  to remember “that we’re just tenants — and ones without much sway.” Here’s the piece, dnssihryfz by Nicholas Kristof, which quotes from Richard Louv’s  classic, “Last Child in the Woods.”
Hey Kids! Get Away From That Playground!!
The tazkzehadk headline on this USA Today story sums it up: Playgrounds: They’re safer but still can be dangerous. As opposed to — what? Anything can be dangerous. Nothing can be 100% safe. Yesterday a man walking through Central Park got hit by a falling branch and now he’s in a coma. Should we cordon off […]
A Funny Video about Online Predators? Yup!
So I just read yet another article about how to protect your child from all the perverts sliming around on social media, like MySpace and Facebook. Hooey. I’m all for protecting kids from crime and creeps, but the advice had it wrong. Both the Crimes Against Children Research Center and Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet […]
Going Free-Range…After an Abduction
Hi tztrbffbhd Readers: Here’s a note of transformation from a mom of five who is going Free-Range after three decades of fear. Her oldest is 32, youngest is 10. Thank you, thank you. I went from “You have got to be kidding — she let her kid take the subway?” to “This makes so much sense […]