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    Nature Is Not a Snooty Museum! Let Kids Tear Off Some Leaves, For Gosh’ Sake

    March 17, 2025

    It is right to respect nature. But is it right to insist on a “hands off” policy, as if each…

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    Are Birth Rates Plunging Because Parenting Has Become a RELENTLESS DRAG?

    March 10, 2025

    This Reddit post by “KnightErrant21” made me sit up and SALUTE! Yes, yes, yes! Maybe it’s just not that attractive…

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    My Kid Fell and Needed Brain Surgery: How Can I Free-Range NOW???

    March 5, 2025

    Here’s a note I got 10 years ago. Read to the end for an update! Dear Lenore: I consider myself…

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    Let’s Just Call This My Anti-Parents-Magazine Rant #2,393

    February 20, 2025

    If you can’t stand my rants, skip this, for rant I must. Why? Because Parents Magazine’s “5 Ways to Support Your…

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    No More Knocks on the Doors of Decent Parents: 5 States Considering Reasonable Childhood Independence Laws!

    February 14, 2025

    Let’s go, America! We all know kids have the right to some independence, and parents should have the right to…

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    Letting Kids Bicker Has Its Rewards (Especially If We’re Not Around!)

    January 31, 2025

    One reason parents/teachers/adults are spending so much time hovering over kids is that they are spending so much time hovering…

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    Frozen With Fear No More: One Mom’s Frosty, Free-Range Journey!

    January 27, 2025

    Readers, it is true: Sometimes, a sigh escapes. One observes the forces arrayed against kids being kids and the road…

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    Legally, What Age Can Kids Play Outside, Unsupervised?

    January 20, 2025

    The age that kids start playing — walking, biking, frolicking outside — should be up to the parents. But that’s…

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    What Happens When a Head of School Makes Recess (and beyond) Fabulous!

    January 10, 2025

    SCORE! About a month ago, I visited the Strelitz Academy in Virginia Beach and it gave me SUCH HEART! Everyone…

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    The 10 Worst Free-Range Stories of 2024 — and Four Big Reasons for Hope!

    January 2, 2025

    Goodbye, 2024 – but first, a quickie look back at the forces that were allied against Free-Ranging last year. And…

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