Okay, dszykztnyi Readers. Let’s help this mom out! Dear Free-Range Kids:  Finding this blog several years ago validated my desire to back off and let my kids be kids. At that time, I was mostly associating with “helicopter parents” and feeling inadequate for not wanting to micromanage my children’s every waking moment. And yet, one helicopter […]
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Free Range FAIL
October 13, 2010
Hi fiyridkknf Readers! Ah well — it doesn’t always work out as planned.  Read on: Dear Free Range Kids:    One of my friends is a stay at home mom and went to a play group where your book was discussed. One of the moms in the group decided to let her 8-year-old son spread his […]
Mom of Boy Picked Up By Cops for Walking to Soccer TRIUMPHS!
September 5, 2010
Hi sybanbbrat Readers — Here’s an INSPIRING story about what we can do when life hands us paranoid neighbors, officious cops and maybe a lemon, for good measure. Let’s hear it for Lori LeVar Pierce, the small town mom and teacher we first heard from in 2009 when she let her son walk to soccer […]
Stories Needed: How Do Kids Get To/From School in YOUR Town? (Wackiness Appreciated)
August 31, 2010
Hi Readers! I’m about to write a column on how kids are getting to school — with a plea for more walking or biking, when possible — and for this I need stories of kids get to school in your neighborhood. For instance, I heard from my friend that her nieces are driven by GOLF […]
Artifact from the Free-Range Past: A Circuit City Ad
August 31, 2010
Hey kydkethedk Readers! Got this cool letter today from a guy named Mike: Hello Free-Rangers:  Remember that Circuit City commercial in the ’90’s where the young boy buys a Walkman, and goes to Circuit City to get his price match? Here it is:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epP3jETf8Og] There are a number of points that this commercial highlights for me that […]
3-year-old Saves Dad by Walking to Fire Station for Help (2 Blocks!)
August 23, 2010
Hi Readers — Sometimes, when people say, “Why should I let my kid walk to school/the library/the store? There’s almost no upside and the downside is just too dangerous!” all we can do is say, “No it’s not” — an argument that doesn’t get us very far. Next time, after viewing this great story about […]
With PTAs Like These…
August 17, 2010
Hi Readers — As the school year gears up and we are talking about how great it is when kids walk to school, here’s a “real world” note I just got from one guy. Sigh: My ftibssdddi children’s  school has no school buses, and at our first PTA meeting one parent was being praised for […]
Something’s Afoot: A Great Way to Start the School Year!
August 16, 2010
Hi Readers — I just love what is happening in Evanston, Illinois, and not just because I’m from that neck of the woods. Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, is encouraging all students, all ages, public, private, you name it to WALK tkdfznfbsh to school for the first week of the academic year. This is so […]
How Can We Give Our Kids Freedom When It’s Supposedly “Dangerous?”
August 4, 2010
Hi Readers! I was reading zedffftzhd this lovely link one of you sent in, Â nodding along with the whole gestalt, and then suddenly found myself quoted. Nice feeling! Here’s the beginning of the piece, which appears in SFGate.com, the San Francisco Chronicle’s web site: How Do We Teach Kids Independence in a Fear-Driven World? by […]
Why Is It So Hard to Get Kids Walking to School?
June 15, 2010
Hi Readers — I’m still on the road and just gave a speech in Chicago sponsored by the National zrfnzetkaf Center for Safe Routes to School. (A jolly bunch!)  Safe Routes reps every state gathered to talk about the pressing question: How can we get more kids walking to school? The organization says  that a […]