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Lost in the Woods
This essay, What Losing My Kids Taught Me About Free-Range Parenting, appeared in The Tennessean. It’s by Maggie Conran, author of the blog nomommybrain (motto: Just Say No to Mommy Brain!). The piece...
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Is It Okay to Free-Range While Privately Freaking Out?
. A reader writes: I want to be a Free-Range parent. I really really do. I do try. Just last week I told myself to stay calm before saying anything to a parent who had allowed my son to swim in her...
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Why the “No Touch” Policy at Schools and Camps Makes No Sense
. This letter I got yesterday reminds me of one of the most thorough, fascinating, damning study I’ve ever read about where the “No touch” policy comes from (and why it is unnecessary, and how it...
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How Can I Ever Relax Again After My Child’s Accident — and Brain Surgery?
. This week sort of turns out to have a theme: Dealing with life’s vast unpredictability, and all the fear, guilt and blame that tag along with this daunting fact. So here’s a note from a mom who...
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How To Arrange a Free-Range Parents Meet-Up
. This extremely helpful post comes from Rachel Howe, a writing teacher and mom in South Philly, where she started the South Philly Parents Resource Center. What she’s describing sounds like a sort of...
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“What Was Your Worst Experience as the Child of Helicopter Parents?”
. Riveting thread on Reddit: “Children of Helicopter Parents: What was the worst or most embarrassing thing they put you through?” Particularly interesting is the idea that the parents described below...
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Let’s Write Some REAL WORLD Free-Range Headlines: “Kids Play Outside, Come...
. This great idea comes to us from Emily Adams, whose insights and emails I am always grateful for. Please add your own headlines! Dear Lenore: Maybe Free-Range Kids could expand, and do a...
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This Does Not “Appear” to be an Abduction Attempt, Say the Cops (About...
. Imagine a world where a brief encounter between young people and strangers does not automatically warrant police involvement — or a news report. Now imagine you were in central Massachusetts...
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Verizon’s “Hum” Allows Parents to Track their Teen Drivers: Why This Stinks
. The commercial below makes my heart sink, and not because I am so thrilled when my son goes driving off. It shows a teen girl driving like a maniac, playing hooky to go to the beach in a bikini, and...
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How Helicopter Parents Needlessly Scared My Anxious Son
We can’t control the busybodies out there (sigh). But this mom wonders how can we get them to stop interfering with our kids’ sense of safety — especially if our kids are anxious to begin with: Dear...
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Why Are Millennials So Afraid of Freedom? I Think We Know
An extremely insightful and rather frightening op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times looks at why Millennials are “so wary of freedom.” It’s by Clay Routledge, a professor of psychology at North Dakota...
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Is It Okay to Free-Range While Privately Freaking Out?
. A reader eftkiihkyt writes: I want to be a Free-Range parent. I really really do. I do try. Just last week I told myself to stay calm before saying anything to a parent who had allowed my son...
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Why the “No Touch” Policy at Schools and Camps Makes No Sense
. This sneyydtfrn letter I got yesterday reminds me of one of the most thorough, fascinating, damning study I’ve ever read about where the “No touch” policy comes from (and why it is unnecessary, and...
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How Can I Ever Relax Again After My Child’s Accident — and Brain Surgery?
. This sfahytizbe week sort of turns out to have a theme: Dealing with life’s vast unpredictability, and all the fear, guilt and blame that tag along with this daunting fact. So here’s a note from a...
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How To Arrange a Free-Range Parents Meet-Up
. This extremely helpful post comes from Rachel Howe, a writing teacher and mom in South Philly, where she started the South Philly Parents Resource Center. What she’s describing sounds like a sort of...
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“What Was Your Worst Experience as the Child of Helicopter Parents?”
. Riveting thread riarktazze on Reddit: “Children of Helicopter Parents: What was the worst or most embarrassing thing they put you through?” Particularly interesting is the idea that the parents...
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Let’s Write Some REAL WORLD Free-Range Headlines: “Kids Play Outside, Come...
. This rihddskfrz great idea comes to us from Emily Adams, whose insights and emails I am always grateful for. Please add your own headlines! Dear Lenore: Maybe Free-Range Kids could expand, and do a...
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This Does Not “Appear” to be an Abduction Attempt, Say the Cops (About...
. Imagine a world where a brief encounter between young people and strangers does not automatically warrant police involvement — or a news report. Now imagine you were in central Massachusetts...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Verizon’s “Hum” Allows Parents to Track their Teen Drivers: Why This Stinks
. The commercial below makes my heart sink, and not because I am so thrilled when my son goes driving off. It shows a teen girl driving like a maniac, playing hooky to go to the beach in a bikini, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Helicopter Parents Needlessly Scared My Anxious Son
We can’t control the busybodies out there (sigh). But this mom wonders how can we get them to stop interfering with our kids’ sense of safety — especially if our kids are anxious to begin with: Dear...
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