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    What It Feels Like to Finally Be Allowed to Walk to the Ice Cream Store at 12

    December 11, 2013

    Readers — There is something poignant, sweet, weird and wonderful about what you’re about to read. Remember it when friends…

    UPDATE WITH YOUR LOCAL MERRY-GO-ROUND! This Dog Gets to Have More Fun than Your Kids

    December 11, 2013

    UPDATE: *********Readers, one of you asked us to start a list of parks that still have merry-go-rounds. Does yours? If…

    Wanda Holland Greene’s Thoughts on Free-Range Kids

    December 10, 2013

    Readers: A few weeks ago I spoke at The Hamlin School in San Francisco. It’s an all-girl school, housed in…

    “Recess Is Not Developmentally Appropriate for Our Youngest Students”

    December 9, 2013

    Readers — Here is an actual letter from a school superintendent, sent in by a reader after she and her…

    Warning: Man Seen in Van! Parents, Please Tell Your Kids

    December 6, 2013

    From the heartland — Michigan’s Newaygo Public Schools  — comes  a warning that’s scary. But probably not the way it…

    Is There a Free-Range Way to Deal with REAL Recess Bullying?

    December 5, 2013

    Hi Folks! I appreciate this writer’s dilemma and asked Jill Vialet, the founder of Playworks , and author of the…

    Do Helicoptered Kids Do Better? A Free-Ranged Young Woman Weighs In on

    December 4, 2013

    Hey Folks — I liked this comment on the post from the “Wonderin’ ” mom who looked around and felt…

    Parents: Please Show This to Your Principals and PTAs

    December 3, 2013

    What is so important to show our schools? This USA Today article that states, unequivocally, our schools are NOT GETTING…

    “The Helicoptered Kids are Pretty Darn Perfect, and My Free-Rangers Are Falling Behind”

    December 2, 2013

    Readers — Here’s a letter I just got from a fellow journalist I’ve met a few times, and like: Dear…

    The Ultimate “Child Protection” — State Forcibly Sedates Mom, Performs Cesarean, Takes Baby

    December 1, 2013

    Readers — This story from The Telegraph makes Kafka look like Louisa May Alcott. I don’t share it as a…

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