A message most schools are probably copying word for word right now. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C5Rnb7J3sU]
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Just When You Thought it Was Safe to Play on the Lawn…
Hi Free-Rangers: Here’s a brand new fear to leave you with for the weekend: kbdfakdnhh “Raccoon Latrines Pose Risk to Kids.” A new risk? OMG! Lock up the kids! Reader Lorie McGraw found this article explaining — in great detail — how these “latrines,†found all over suburbia, get filled with…what you’d expect. (Put down […]
Yikes! A Speech!!
Next Tuesday is Pres. Obama’s speech to children, urging them to stay in school and read books and, for all I know, brush their teeth. It’s about that controversial…or so you’d think. But of course, nothing is uncontroversial in these hyper-umbrage-taking days, so we’re hearing from some parents and school administrators and concerned citizens that […]
Kids Freaked Out By Grass, Squirrels and Playing Outside
Hi tidfyshzkh Readers — A fellow named Brian sent in this note about kids and nature. It sort of dovetails with a study just released in England that found an alarming percentage of kids are spending so much time indoors, they can’t identify things in the natural world anymore, including daddy longlegs. I’m no huge fan of […]
Kids Off to College? Stalk ‘Em With Social Media!
Good news! “Twitter, nzhdbakkyd Facebook Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Age Kids.” (Thank you again, Onion! And thank you, those who sent this video in.) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu4zMvE6FH4]
Outrage of the Week: Background Checks Required for IVF
Oh darn! Just when you thought you could inject yourself with hormones every day for about 2 months, bloat like a beachball, have your eggs monitored and retrieved (after loads of blood tests) to then be fertilized in a test tube and plunged back into your womb at about $15,000 a pop so you could,  hopefully, get pregnant, give birth and […]
The School Bus, The Kid and Mom
Cute For Better or For Worse comic that somehow seems very appropriate! — Lenore Enjoy!
Free-Range Signs of Life?
Hi Readers! A magazine reporter is looking for stories of Free-Range concepts being put into practice in real life. Schools insisting on adding back recess. Districts encouraging kids to walk or ride to class. Neighborhoods bringing kids back outside, on their own, communities informally agreeing to tone down the oppulence of the birthday parties. Happy, hopeful […]
Outrage of the Week: Afterschool Pick-Up Panic!
Readers – If anyone ever asks you, “What’s so WRONG about protecting our children?†and you agree that kids should be safe (who doesn’t?), but you’re searching for an example of how the hysteria has gotten out of hand:  Here nzhyserrsk you go. See below. Suffice to say a grammar school in the Fort Myers […]