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Kids Need Freedom Nov. 13, 2024
I often report on fake "crises" pushed by media. Here's one that may be real: Kids are anxious. ... Read More
Play Time/Jail Time Oct. 23, 2024
What does it take for a parent to get arrested? Surprisingly little. Scott and Heather Wallace of He... Read More
Picnic Perils Jul. 21, 2022
It is, according to the calendar and the faint cheering you can hear whenever you pass an anthill, p... Read More
Just Go Outside Jul. 14, 2022
It is time to go outside. Tell that to your kids. Tell that to yourself. Tell that to the culture th... Read More
Extra! Extra! Boy Walks to School! Jun. 23, 2022
A Michigan story getting a lot of attention for reasons you can probably figure out on your own is h... Read More
Why My Local School Called Security on Me May. 12, 2022
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood — Queens, New York. I'm walking by one of the local e... Read More
American Kids Are 'Old Enough' for Errands, Too! Apr. 14, 2022
Two years and nine months. That's the age of the first child we watch going on an errand by himself ... Read More
The Wackiest Parenting Stories of 2021 Dec. 30, 2021
In a crazy year, some stories were crazier than others when it came to kids, parents, worrywarts, sc... Read More
Texas Goes Free-Range! May. 20, 2021
Hats off to Texas: Over the weekend, it became the third U.S. state, after Utah and Oklahoma, to mak... Read More
So, You're Bored, Kids? May. 15, 2020
"I'm not letting anyone in this house give a haircut yet, but that day may come." So says Vanessa El... Read More
COVID-19 Fears Inspire a Bizarre Revenge Plot Apr. 30, 2020
What's a parent to do? It was early in March, COVID-19 fears were on the rise, and two Kentucky pare... Read More
Utah Parents Free to Raise Free-Range Kids Aug. 22, 2019
What does it feel like to be a parent in Utah, the first (and so far only) state to pass the free-ra... Read More
Free-Range Does Not Mean Feral Jun. 20, 2019
Wow! What kind of crazy parent lets their 4-year-old run into the street, stay up all hours and curs... Read More
The Right of Kids to Walk to School Jul. 23, 2015
Who's that peeking out from behind the blinds as the kids pass by the house? Could it be the kind of... Read More
A Crazy Idea to Bring Back Childhood Apr. 30, 2015
For the past five years, the movement that I founded, Free-Range Kids, has been promoting Take Our C... Read More
Let's Make It Legal for Kids to Walk Outside Mar. 05, 2015
The long-awaited decision from Child Protective Services has arrived at the home of Maryland free-ra... Read More
Helicoptered to the Ivies Apr. 03, 2014
Kwasi Enin, a high-school senior in New York who got in to all eight Ivy League colleges, credits hi... Read More
