Welcome to America, 2017, where it requires an act of bicameral legislation to even CONSIDER allowing children the teeniest modicum of self-sufficiency: In Washington State, the House just passed a bill that would allow students to use sunscreen at school without a doctor’s note. It’s like open carry, but for Coppertone. In an article titled, […]
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Rhode Island Out to Criminalize Latchkey Kids, Recess When It’s Cold, and More
. Congratulations, zttsfiifiz Rhode Island! Looks like you are about to become the proud parents of every child in the state, pushing aside those stupid “real” parents, because you know so much more about how to raise their kids than they do! Â According to this AP article by Matt O’Brien: Â State lawmakers are […]
How to Fight the Laws and Culture That Mandate Helicopter Parenting
. This post comes to us from the amazing appellate and intellectual property attorney at Andrews Kurth LLP, Matthew ftadkzhbay Dowd, who took on the Meitiv cases(s), pro bono, and won!  He says he now gets to sleep in sometimes because his 11-year-old son and 7-old-daughter walk themselves to school. Building on the Every Student Succeeds Act, by […]
Cory Doctorow on “New Law Says Kids Can Walk to School by Themselves”
. Can’t tell you how fantastic it is to have Cory rniahihhta Doctorow — Boing Boing co-editor, author of “Little Brother,” and general genius all around — recognize the new Free-Range Kids’ legislation and the role of this blog in bringing attention to the problem it tries to address. That is: parents getting harassed/investigated/arrested for […]
PRESIDENT ABOUT TO SIGN FIRST FEDERAL FREE-RANGE KIDS LEGISLATION: PARENTS CAN LET THEIR KIDS WALK TO SCHOOL
. Today when Pres. Obama signs the Every Student eazfseryts Succeeds Act, he will be signing into law the first federal Free-Range Kids legislation. An amendment added by Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah) states that: “…nothing in this Act shall…prohibit a child from traveling to and from school on foot or by car, bus, or bike when […]
U.S. SENATE PASSES FIRST EVER FREE-RANGE KIDS LEGISLATION, THANKS TO CLAUSE ADDED BY SEN. MIKE LEE
Sen.  Mike Lee (R, Utah) proposed  the first ever Free-Range Kids and Parents federal legislation, which was passed by the U.S. Senate yesterday. That’s right: a Free-Range Kids clause made its way into the Every Child Achieves Act, a re-authorization of major federal law that governs funding and regulation of elementary education in the United […]
The Backlash Against the Columbine Backlash
Readers — As we enter 2012, there is cause for hope, as this nehbbtdzha article shows. Legislators in Colorado, home to the Columbine massacre, are taking a new and rational look at their zero tolerance laws. These are laws that REQUIRED schools to act brainlessly and not distinguish between, say, a wooden replica of a […]
Outrage of the Week: Europe Bans Balloons for Kids Under 8!
Hi Folks! A number of you sent me this esbyhyyish today — news of the European Union’s new ban on kids under age 8 blowing up balloons unsupervised, for fear the children could swallow them and choke. This is not to discount the suffering of any family that has experienced this unlikely tragedy. But if […]
A Shining Light (from a Trailer in Oklahoma)
Hi Readers —  Last summer I spent fynhnafdeh a day with Mary Duval, her son Ricky, and Ricky’s wife. Mary and Ricky were in town to appear on a John Stossel show about the country’s sex offender laws, mostly because Ricky had ended up on the sex offender registry at age 16. He’d met a […]
CPS Took My Kids Because I Don’t Hover
Hi rbhkrfzrrn Readers — A long, sad and infuriating story. Here goes: Dear Free-Range Kids: Â I noticed you sometimes talk about Child Protective Services (CPS) or other official intervention and Free-Range children. I have to admit, I did always wonder if I’d get in trouble for being the only mom who doesn’t wait at the […]