Free Range Kids

FreeRangeKids: From, "How could you let your kid go to the store alone?!?" to, "Hey! I let my kid go to the store alone!: http://bit.ly/7caTCs
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FreeRangeKids: An Xmas present, especially for parents of BOYS! (Or parents who WERE boys):http://bit.ly/5CEsnt
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FreeRangeKids: I'm Dreaming of a Warm Snuggie/A toasty blankie with two sleeves/ I can hold my clicker/ And off-brand liquor... http://bit.ly/8TR45P
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FreeRangeKids: RT @Busymom : The green cookies count as vegetables, right?
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FreeRangeKids: Cool and almost attractive! RT @petapixel Strange - Guy makes chainmail armor entirely from beer can tabs: http://j.mp/6lpG1j
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Hi Readers — This just in! A lovely story. Be of good cheer — it’s happening! — Lenore Dear Free-Range Kids: This happened to me the other day. I was talking to a co-worker about how, as a child, my parents would send me to spend my summers with family in America… alone. I was an [...]
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Hi Readers! This photo montage has been making the rounds. Thought I’d share it, too. I’ve seen it headlined, “Why Boys Need Moms,” and, “Why Boys Need Parents.” (As opposed to the post two below this one: Why Boys Need Lawyers.) Enjoy, but don’t bother to tell us that not all these pix are in good taste. [...]
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Hi Readers and gollllly. Here I thought we’d cornered the market on commonsense. But according to the megasite Babble — and its wonderful list of the 50 top mommy bloggers — Free-Range Kids is the “Most Controversial” parenting blog of 2009. If you visit the Babble list, please feel free to click on the “I Like [...]
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….please read this amazing letter to the editor that ran in the Eastern Arizona Courier the other day. So glad it was forwarded to me. Voila: Dear Editor: I am writing this because I am tired of seeing young men’s lives destroyed. Young men, there’s a real danger out there you need to be aware of that can [...]
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‘Tis Christmas Carol parody season. Here’s one of mine, below. For more — including “Text My Cell” to Jingle Bells, and “Frosty the Outsourced Snowman” —  check out ParentDish.com and Creators.com, my two other gigs!  (And I won’t tell you which one has the Tiger Woods Greensleeves song, “Whose Texts Are These?”) — Lenore THE OCTOMOM SONG [...]
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Here’s a positive story about recess: I live in Oak Park, seven miles west of downtown Chicago, so it’s coooold here. A bunch of parents who were tired of our kids watching Disney movies during winter recesses banded together in the fall and persuaded our principal to hold recess outside as long as the temperature and windchill are at least 20 degrees. Thirty-two percent of our students are low income, so a school grandmother organized a coat drive to help out students who don’t have suitable winter gear. The kids aren’t thrilled about this new policy of course–but we parents are delighted!

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Pentamom, his mother-in-law is clearly already a deeply frightened and unhappy woman. And it was Christmas. There’s a time and a place for snark, and a time and a place for gently leading people back to sanity.

As for the post itself, that’s great news

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Calling the woman “Octomom”, for one, can hardly be said to be supportive of her choices.

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Teacher Tom, I know I’m just beating the old horse, but I wonder how she would have reacted if you would have pulled a look of deep concern on your face and asked her how many miles per year she traveled by car? If she appeared surprised or confused, you could tell her how much higher her chances were of being killed that way than by any of the things your kids were doing, and that you really wanted her to stop traveling by car anywhere, ever, because that small percentage of automobile deaths would be small comfort to you if happened to her.

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I remember when I lived in the Tampa/Clearwater area for 3 years (91-99) how the local TV news programs were constantly running promos to scare the seniors into being afraid of everything. It was disgusting and shameful. These “news” programs say the same falsehoods over and over again that their viewers end up believing all of the lies.

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