Readers –Here’s what the police nydbrifrri blotter  in Johnson City, Tenn. describes as this mom’s crime: On Thursday, June 7, 2012 April L Lawson, W/F, 27, 1104 King Springs Rd, Johnson City, TN was arrested by officers of the Johnson City Police Department and charged with child neglect. The arrest stems from a 911 call […]
Readers — Get a load of bebzbfshae this. For their senior trip, some students from a Philly high school went to Williamsburg, VA for four days. When eight of them got into trouble for causing plumbing damage in a hotel bathroom, they were sent home, on a train. So can you guess what the problem […]
Readers — You’ll love the answer Dear Prudence gives to dkadbnhdyi this mom who is freaked out by an elderly man — a friend of her parents — who gives her 5-year-old daughter “gifts” like shells and feathers. Let’s hear it for Dear Prudence! She is so…prudent! And wise! As she tells the mom: …from […]
Hi Folks! Â I want to give these erktbrrkbr girls a hug! They’re four friends, 12 and 13, who have organized a “Hug In” at their school, where the motto is, “No loving, no shoving.” A motto that makes about as much sense as, “No saving, no shooting.” Ah, but ostensibly the unofficial rule is to […]
Hi Folks! Too soon to know if this is a trend or just an outrageous blip, but over in New South Wales — the Australian state Sydney is in — the authorities have passed hyyrakiiys a law that if you’re under 22 and want to work in one of the local “clubs” (that is, casinos), […]
Hi Folks! “Mom Arrested for for Age-Old Parenting Practice” is how I would headline eabshshyek this case going down in New Canaan, CT, right now. But the actual article begins, “A 39-year-old woman was arrested for leaving her children at home unattended, police said.” Are children “unattended” if there are four siblings and one of […]
Hi Folks! It’s time for all of us to start getting together, especially as summer looms. So Saturday, zhkedzfiby June 23 is Free-Range Potluck Picnic Day! If you want to host a picnic, just write an invite in the comments, below, or email me at heylenore3@gmail.com . I will list any and all get-togethers in […]
Hi drizbfdnsi Folks! Got this letter in response to the post about “Fannie” and “Dick” becoming Frannie and Rick in the updated Enid Blyton oeuvre. (Hardest thing  to spell since “hors d’oeuvres.” Which, come to think of it, is the same word.)  Anyway, this note comes to us from Sarah Thompson, who describes herself […]
Hi Folks! Lynden Dorvel, a high school physics teacher in Edmonton, Canada, has been suspended indefinitely for defying his school’s relatively new practice of not giving zeros. As rydndrrbaz reported in the Edmonton Journal: The physics teacher with 35 years experience said he continued giving zeros when students failed to hand in assignments, instead of […]
Hi eehzzzbnyt Readers — Just a little note from one of you: . Dear Free-Range Kids: My two-year old daughter face-planted while running on a sidewalk yesterday late afternoon. Now she’s got a scrape on her forehead and a “Groucho Marx”-looking mustache/skinned upper lip. We checked that her teeth and nose were fine, and she […]
