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    Doonesbury Gets It Right TWICE in One Cartoon

    June 22, 2016

    What a friend we have in Garry! This ran the other week: In case you can’t read it, it says:…

    BREAKING NEWS: NEW STUDY SHOWS HUGE DROP IN STRANGER-DANGER CHILD MURDERS

    June 21, 2016

    Here’s an excerpt from my piece in today’s Wall Street Journal: A Parent’s Nightmare—Increasingly Unlikely by Lenore Skenazy In the…

    American Hyper-parenting Is Infiltrating Norway

    June 19, 2016

    Fear is a virus. It can spread even to the independent reaches of Scandinavia, as this letter suggests. It comes…

    “16 is the Appropriate Age to Allow Children to Be Outside by Themselves” — New Albany, Ohio, Police Chief

    June 17, 2016

    The New Albany, OH, chief of police is advising parents not to let their kids go outside on their own…

    Of Alligators, Gorillas, Tragedy and Blame

    June 16, 2016

    There has been an outpouring of online sympathy for the parents of  the boy who was killed by an alligator…

    Can My Ex-Wife Prevent Me From Letting Our 9-year-old Walk to School?

    June 15, 2016

    I wish I knew how to answer this dad, but I don’t, so I’m crowd-sourcing. If you’re a lawyer, or…

    It’s Impossible to be a Parent in Our Hyper-Critical, Hyper-Vigilant, Picky, Panicked Culture

    June 14, 2016

    The title of this Time piece, “Parenting is Now Officially Impossible,” made me sit up. It’s so true!  Anything we…

    “Am I Cute?” Asks Kid Annoyed that Her Parents Are Cleaning Up Instead of Playing with Her

    June 13, 2016

    How do parents get the idea that if they aren’t playing with their kids, they’re not doing their job? .…

    OUTRAGE OF THE WEEK: Mom on Electronic Monitor, $25,000 Bail, For Letting Kids Wait 10 Mins in Car Within View, Windows Down

    June 12, 2016

    A mom who let her 8-month-old twins wait in the car with the windows down, within her view, for 10…

    You Can’t Be Nostalgic About Your Free-Range Childhood AND Demand Constant Supervision of Today’s Kids

    June 10, 2016

    This is a fascinating Facebook rant by a woman I don’t know but am now hoping will be my FB…

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