Hi tdeyyszbzd Readers! I’m in Minnesota to give a Free-Range talk. Always happy to spread the word because then things like this — see below — start happening! This post originally appeared at the blog Last American Childhood. by Rachel Federman. Enjoy! A Free-Range Exeperiment by Rachel Federman In the playground this morning I tried […]
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Stranger Danger? Wise Words from a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Nurse
May 18, 2010
Hey Readers — Short, sweet and safe. Wise words lifted from a comment that just landed here: “Dear Free- Range Kids: [I am a] Peds ICU nurse and can tell you that the real dangers are overlooked.  Lock your second story windows, make sure your kids understand car and bike safety. Model safe behavior. […]
Stranger Danger: It’s Not Just for Kids Anymore
April 8, 2010
Hi Readers — Just got alerted to this ad and service, BeenVerified.com.  It allows you to do a background check on anyone, from the comfort of your own home. Check the guy you met online, check your mortgage broker (make sure it’s not Alan Greenspan), check your electrician — yes, a guy on the ad says […]
Recent Tweets — And Off to Tucson
March 12, 2010
Hi Readers — From time to time I like to post  some of my recent tweets here, for those who are not (yet) Twittering away. So – voila, in no particular order: 1 -Whole NY Times story on whether Disney ousted anti-commercialism kids group from its Harvard home: http://nyti.ms/9y4IV3 2 fhdrseyftb – New blog from KaBoom […]
Dear Mrs. Obama: We Can’t Fight Obesity Without Going Free-Range
February 15, 2010
Hi Readers: Here’s an almost perfect opinion ntredykari piece by Dan Haley in Sunday’s Denver Post about how Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” program is a great idea — get kids outside, exercising more — but it’ll never work. At least, not until we start a Free-Range Revolution (not that he calls it that): …first we need […]
Why Kids Don’t Play Outside Much Anymore
December 8, 2009
Hi Readers — This dfskkyfifi is an article about a  BBC show debuting today the examines how “Stranger Danger” changed the way kids play.  Sometimes I wonder if “stranger” and “danger” didn’t rhyme, if things would be different. It’s such a catchy phrase, it almost sounds as if “stranger” and “danger” always went together. But […]
Argh!!
November 23, 2009
Hi Readers — This just in. So much for changing the world in one fell swoop. Dear afkidyhseb Free-Range Kids: I really enjoyed the article in Time, and decided to have a talk with my 6 year old daughter about independence. She was very inspired and asked if she could ride her scooter around the […]
Is Your Child in DANGER?
November 9, 2009
Hi Readers! Here’s a nifty little brochure I picked up the other day for a child safety device. I won’t say which one, since I don’t want to give it any publicity. Perhaps you’ll see why. Here’s what the brochure said, in all its grammatical creativity. Please note: The dot-dot-dots are theirs. I haven’t left […]
Not to Worry!
October 19, 2009
Hi Readers — Here’s a great ahhzenkbkt article from Parade Magazine by the Freakonomics folks, all about how we fear the wrong things. Allow us to quote one particularly salient paragraph (or two, actually): There are any number of topics about which our fears run far out of proportion to reality. For instance, whom are […]
Our Kids Get Lessons on Every Danger, And Yet…
October 16, 2009
Hi kyakdkbfzk Readers — Here’s a comment that got me thinking.  Dear Free-Range Kids: My sons came home from school the other day with a letter informing parents that there would a Healthy Eating talk given to all groups. This comes less than a month after a talk on the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases […]