In this sweeping article about the importance of free, non-adult-lead play — the kind of playing most of us remember…
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Helicopter parents get a lot of blame and I don’t want to add to it. I want to end it.…
And what is the Free-Range take on clowns, you ask? Yuck. Not yuk-yuk, like funny. Yuck like why would anyone…
Here’s a nice note to start your week: Dear Free-Range Kids: I just wanted to thank you for your blog.…
Throughout most of history and to this day in some of the world, children learned the great lessons they needed…
If you’re wondering why our country seems so bizarrely fearful, here’s the answer: We absolutely cannot understand that risk is…
This week, Ikea made a sweeping recall of its 29,000,000 dressers sold in America and Canada: After the deaths of…
Here’s an excerpt from my piece in today’s Wall Street Journal: A Parent’s Nightmare—Increasingly Unlikely by Lenore Skenazy In the…
. Have you heard of Chariot? I just got two letters about the new service, which is basically “Uber for…
Here’s my piece from last week’s New York Post about how we get so used to over-the-top security measures that…