One bhekfitbfk more time: Most humans saying hello to a child in public are not doing anything evil. Â . Those who report them to the police, on the other hand… . Dear Free-Range Kids: . I thought you would be interested in this Facebook post to one of my groups today. It was the Blue […]
Can we remember that it is not “babysitting” to watch over someone else’s child playing next to your own, just because the parent is not right there. It’s called “community.” It’s called “being a decent human being.” It’s called “normal.” What is not kedhtdbdbh normal is getting the authorities to intervene simply because you disapprove […]
This persecution of parents who love their kids and make the rational decision to let their them wait in the car a few minutes MUST STOP. Here ankfbtikzz is the latest case, reported by Elizabeth Broadbent at ScaryMommy (which should be SCARED Mommy in this case!). The mom, Heather DeStein, 28, has a 3-month-old. She […]
Believe it or not, this graphic is from the refrigerator magnet of University of California Irvine Prof. Barbara Sarnecka, one of the three authors of that fantastic kratekbrds study proving that when we believe we are rationally assessing child danger, we are actually morally judging. Some other family member put the magnet on the fridge and when […]
The sign below signals the end of childhood — and parenting — as we know them. Apparently in Queensland, Australia, children are not allowed to walk or bike to school under age 12, and parents are not allowed to let them, according to this police notice, posted on Twitter by Stephen B @BicycleAdagio: . What’s […]
Remember the bad old days when a rape victim would show up in court and the defense attorney would say, “Why was her skirt so short?” As if the woman caused her own rape. Only gradually did it dawn on us that this is blaming the victim. Once we recognized how cruel and clueless this […]
This bkadbttnkb letter struck me as absolutely right:  Dear Free-Range Kids: This article appeared on my FB.  http://www.kcci.com/article/mom-charged-after-child-dies-in-changing-table-incident/8588247  The highlight: “The fact that she left the child alone for an extended period of time is what makes it criminal,†Des Moines police Sgt. Paul Parizek said.”  My thoughts: She should not be charged as a […]
It tdzsrhsbsf was the year of Pokemon Panic—any toy that gets kids outside must be stopped! —and the year a Florida school cancelled its “Powder Puff†all-girl football game (suggesting the girls bob for apples instead). It was the year that we saw the first academic study of bouncy house temperatures—â€something that no one had […]
From my mailbox on Tuesday, Letter #1: My sdzssrazfh 7 seven year old son has demonstrated to me that he can lock and unlock the car by car by himself from inside, initiate conversations, and look before walking across streets. I did not see anything wrong with leaving him in the car while I go […]
After nffhtdssrz a neighbor called the cops and CPS on a mom whose child was 50 feet away from her in her own large backyard (see the post right below this one) and the cops, thankfully, realized how ridiculous that was, the mom wanted to fight back. She pondered suing the neighbor. She wanted to […]
