Hi Readers: Here’s a letter from the front lines of (excessive) child saftey, and how it is changing society. —…

Hi Readers!  As “Take Our Children to the Park…And Leave Them There Day” approaches on Saturday, May 21st, I find…

Hello, Readers: If we are ruled by fear, fear will make the rules. And by “fear” I mean mass hysteria.…

Readers — We’re getting to the point where ANYTHING having to do with children is so fraught with inflated fears…

Hi Readers! Just yesterday I was being interviewed by a reporter who admitted she had let her kids, ages 5…

Hi Readers! Stan Cox, author of the new book, “Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding…

Hi Readers! It is time for our second annual Take Our Children to the Park…And Leave Them There Day: Saturday,…

Hi Readers: An interesting note. Do we celebrate community or automatically distrust it? — L. Dear Free-Range Kids: It has…

Hi Readers — Here’s a note from reader Althea Smock, a mother of two Free-range Kids, ages 5 and 7,…

Hi Readers!  What happens when childhood, lawsuits and an all-around inability to deal with risk jump up and down and…