Readers fbbnzebtea — Just another note from the frontlines of our freaking-out country! Got this yesterday: Â . Dear Free-Range Kids: I found this story, currently going on in my greater neighborhood as I type this, incredibly alarmist. A little background: I live in a nice, average neighborhood in Seattle. We have a neighborhood blog […]
Students at “Pastry Gun” School Offered Counseling
Ach! dtrdhhhiad You haf zee streudel nightmares too? My 17th patient today!  Folks — You’ll recall the case from a few days ago when a boy was suspended from school for the crime of biting what sounds like a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun. (Supposedly he was just trying to bite it into”the […]
Helicopters Hired, Oregon School Prepares for Active Shooter Drill
Readers — An Oregon high school is planning to stage the most apocalyptic shooter drill yet. According to local tdabfhiata public NPR station, KLCC: If Elmira High school students go to school on April 27th, they’ll be in an active-shooter role play drill. This is Chris Heppel, who’s coordinating the helicopters that will fly in […]
Cops Detain 6-year-old for Walking Around Neighborhood (And It Gets Worse)
Readers ysyhekiknb — The story below makes me so sad and so angry, and you will see why. If anyone at Child Protective Services or the police department would pick up a single book written before predator panic swept the country, they’d see that 6-year-olds were always part of the neighborhood scene, scampering, playing, or […]
Just ONE More Weird Lockdown Story & Then I’ll Stop!
Readers — I don’t want this blog to become just a compendium of nutty zero tolerance stories, but it’s Saturday night and I couldn’t resist just nhihbbyaee one more before we return to more pressing matters. The Associated Press reports that a Pennsylvania doctor’s receptionist mis-heard a student’s singing voicemail as, “Shooting some people outside of the […]
Pastry Gets Boy Suspended from School (Because It Looked Like a Guess What?)
Readers — I don’t have any comments to make about this hsfeatfrbf latest “Boy Suspended for the Stupidest Reason On Earth” story, but I figured you’re going to hear it soon, might as well hear it here first. And remember: When boys who shape their pastry into a mountain that, to their teacher, looks like […]
Your Baby Can Get Ahead! (For $29.99)
Thank goodness for the Walk khkbekrzih Mee! Now children will finally learn how to walk. All they needed was a little extra $29.99 help — and here it is, at last!  And since they will reach their “key development milestones faster” — and we all know it’s a race — that must mean they will be […]
Why Fear of Crime Matters
Hi Readers! You know how you can go to one site to look something up and a few clicks later you end up someplace else completely different? (I was trying to find the percentage of parents who worry their kids will be kidnapped — a London study found 98%, but I couldn’t find a figure […]
Is Your School More SAFE, Post-Newtown, or Just More Annoying?
Hi Readers — Today I’m posting on Common dyfrrarfrz Good about school safety…or what passes for it. Common Good believes in a common sense, non-hysterical approach to policy, and I’m thrilled to be blogging there. Here’s how the piece begins: Dear Lenore: I took my kids to Sunday school a few weeks ago and the […]
The iPad Playdate (And an Alternative)
 Hi ybnhzbzibd Folks! This wise essay comes to us from Ernie Allison, who describes himself as a “bird nerd†since he was a kid. He loves contributing to conservation efforts and spreading awareness about bird issues and nature in general. Writing for birdfeeders.com has given him “the opportunity to spread awareness as well as learn about hummingbird […]