Hi Readers! I’m very psyched because tomorrow I am going to meet a young man named Ricky and his mom, Mary Duval. Ricky is a Tier 3 Predator Status Sex Offender, on the list for life. Or at least he was, for almost four years. How he finally got off that list this year is […]
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Bad News! Courts Are Rewarding “Intensive Parenting”
Hi Readers — This is so disturbing. Two professors studying family law have written a paper saying that “intensive parenting” is becoming the norm that judges expect good parents to practice. As Walter Olson explains on his blog, Overlawyered, derzfnihtt “Gaia Bernstein (Seton Hall) and Zvi Triger (College of Management School of Law, Israel) say custody […]
Outrage of The Week: Is This Really “Abuse”? Only To Deluded Judge
Hi Readers — Soon I will be compiling stories of Take Our Children to the Park & Leave Them There Day, which went well in parks around the world (well, not a TON of parks, but they WERE around the world and all the participants enjoyed the day). But in the meantime, I just got […]
Remember The Mom Arrested for Letting Her 12-Year-old Take Younger Sibs to Mall?
Hi Readers — Remember rfsntyzrni that story? A mom let her 12-year-old daughter and the girl’s friend take their combined three siblings to the mall. The kids shopped and had lunch but afterward, when the two older girls went into a dressing room to try on some shirts, they left the younger kids — 7 […]
What The Authorities Can Do If We “Take Our Children to the Park…And Leave Them There”
Hi sisiseribt Readers — This essay is long, but so powerful it blew me away.  As we near May 22’s  “Take Our Children to the Park…and Leave Them There Day,” the author’s question is extremely relevant: What happens when WE believe our kids will be safe, but the authorities do not? Read on. And prepare […]
![Hi Readers — This essay is long, but so powerful it blew me away.  As we near May 22′s  ”Take Our Children to the Park…and Leave Them There Day,” the author’s question is extremely relevant: What happens when WE believe our kids will be safe, but the authorities do not? Read on. And prepare for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freerangekids.wordpress.com&blog=3396577&post=3130&subd=freerangekids&ref=&feed=1" />](https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freerangekids.wordpress.com&blog=3396577&post=3130&subd=freerangekids&ref=&feed=1 "What The Authorities Can Do If We “Take Our Children to the Park…And Leave Them Thereâ€")
What The Authorities Can Do If We “Take Our Children to the Park…And Leave Them Thereâ€
Hi Readers — This essay is long, but so powerful it blew me away.  As we near May 22′s  ”Take Our Children to the Park…and Leave Them There Day,” the author’s question is extremely relevant: What happens when WE believe our kids will be safe, but the authorities do not? Read on. And prepare for […]
Guest Post: Is EVERYTHING Too Dangerous?
Hi tfdbzarbri Folks! I was reading this blog post about product-recall-mania today and nodded along with so much of it, I asked the writer, Julie Colwell, if I could post it and she said sure. So here it is, slightly edited: Micromanaging Moms 101, by Julie Colwell, from her blog, “The Mother Load.” So, in […]
Outrage of the Week: Before the Slumber Party, Paperwork
Hi Readers! In the category of “overkill” and “probably not representative of the culture as a whole, but still instructive,” and “wacko!” here’s an amazing post from the blog Doctor deananzttf Grumpy in the House: A dad (Dr. Grumpy, I presume) was dropping off his daughter at a friend’s house for a sleepover when the […]
Why Is This Radical? A Town Debates LETTING Kids Ride Their Bikes to School
Hi Readers! This is an iikhrzrhbz encouraging story (from boston.com), in that Arlington, MA., a town outside of Boston, is pushing to get more kids biking to school. Â But the fact that this initiative is CONTROVERSIAL is enough to make you bang your head against a bike horn. (Or vice versa.) Here’s a bit of […]
Put Down that Calculus Book & Come to the Bathroom with Mommy
Oh, Readers:Â Here’s one from Glasgow, Scotland: By law, any time anyone under the age of 16 is in a “licensed premise” — i.e., a pub, or a restaurant that serves liquor, it seems — he cannot be out of his parents’ sight. Even in the loo. Even if it’s a young man with his “mum,” […]