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Hello Muddah, Hello, Faddah — in The Smartphone Age original ↗

29 Nov 2023

This Thanksgiving, Be Thankful for Strangers!original ↗

21 Nov 2023

What Hath Liam Neeson Wrought?original ↗

10 Nov 2023

Something Unspeakably Awful May Have Almost Practically Happened to a Child!original ↗

7 Nov 2023

The Switch Witch Must Go!original ↗

27 Oct 2023

50% of Parents Won’t Let Their Kids Go to Another Aisle in Grocery: Poll original ↗

22 Oct 2023

Teens 18 & 16 Had Consensual Sex. The 18-year-old Went to Prison for Six Years original ↗

19 Oct 2023

That Pediatrics Article about Declining Childhood Independence Causing Declining Childhood Mental Health original ↗

17 Oct 2023

Washington Post Scares Parents Needlessly original ↗

4 Oct 2023

Let’s Hear It For Talking to Strangers!original ↗

29 Sept 2023

Hunt, Gather, Parent, Get Chewed Out by The Cops for Letting Your Kid Walk Two Blocks original ↗

22 Sept 2023

What Tracking Does to the Parent-Child Relationship original ↗

17 Sept 2023

The School that Tells Its Brainiacs: Do Not Come to Class! Have Fun!original ↗

12 Sept 2023

“Independence Therapy” in The New York Times! And Me, Too!original ↗

4 Sept 2023

Eek! A Bureaucrat!original ↗

1 Sept 2023

Sometimes Our Side Wins! Houston Parents Push Schools to Bring Back Recess original ↗

29 Aug 2023

Playground Drama: How to Deal with Park Parents who Hover?original ↗

24 Aug 2023

Kids as Lumps of Dullness original ↗

18 Aug 2023

Our Camp Was Phone-Free…Until It Wasn’t. Then Everything Changed.original ↗

11 Aug 2023

This Boy’s Mom Felt Guilty for Being Too Busy To Make Dinner. But Then —original ↗

7 Aug 2023

What Kids Need That They Aren’t Getting original ↗

30 Jul 2023

You Can Do It! How (and Why) to Throw a Block Party original ↗

24 Jul 2023

Is Free Play Too Free for Its Own Good?original ↗

18 Jul 2023

Making Sanity Look Crazy: A Media Primer original ↗

12 Jul 2023

It’s STILL Independence Day in Eight States!original ↗

6 Jul 2023

Mom-fluencer Who Falsely Claimed Her Kids Were Almost Abducted Gets Jail Time original ↗

2 Jul 2023

What Those Kids Who Survived 40 Days in The Amazon Jungle Have that Our Kids Don’t original ↗

27 Jun 2023

Show The Nice Man Your Resume, Mason: When Parents Tag Along on Job Interviews original ↗

20 Jun 2023

Cops Stop Girl, 6, From Walking a Few Blocks to Store in Michigan Suburb original ↗

15 Jun 2023

This Summer Job Description is Driving Me Nuts original ↗

2 Jun 2023

1983 Video Clip of Kids on Bikes: Real Life “Stranger Things”original ↗

31 May 2023

Why a Mom Changed Her Mind About Letting Her Sons Climb a Tree original ↗

25 May 2023

Me, on CNN (Thanks to My Sister)original ↗

15 May 2023

In Which Peter Gray Lays it All Out: Keeping Kids Super “Safe” Is Seriously Harming Them original ↗

10 May 2023

Worried Your Child is Already a Screen Addict? There’s Hope!!!original ↗

4 May 2023

This is Me, My Life’s Work, and a Boy Driving a Truck original ↗

2 May 2023

Tips for Going Screen-Free (Ironically, Provided By This Screen)original ↗

25 Apr 2023

Mother Nature Installed the “Play Drive” in Kids. What Happens When It’s Thwarted?original ↗

21 Apr 2023

Her 2-Year-Old Had a Lockdown Drill at Day Care. Mom Asks: Are These Really Necessary?original ↗

18 Apr 2023

Preschooler’s Prank Leads to Day Care Employees’ Trial original ↗

5 Apr 2023

VIRGINIA GOES FREE-RANGE! FIFTH STATE TO PASS “REASONABLE CHILDHOOD INDEPDENCE” LAW original ↗

30 Mar 2023

Librarian Tells Mom She Broke The Law By Letting Son Browse for 6 Minutes, Unattended original ↗

27 Mar 2023

When Kids’ Independence Goes Down, Their Mental Health Issues Go Up: Journal of Pediatrics original ↗

23 Mar 2023

FLACO THE FIRST FREE-RANGE KIDS MASCOT: Escaped Owl Flies in the Face of Overprotection original ↗

15 Mar 2023

NJ Dad Arrested After Letting His Child Walk Outside — And a Happy Ending!original ↗

10 Mar 2023

Library Sign: “Police May Be Called if a Child Under 15 Is Not Accompanied by an Adult”original ↗

26 Feb 2023

Overprotected Kids Die Younger?original ↗

16 Feb 2023

OFF MESSAGE: My Spongy Valentine original ↗

12 Feb 2023

Who Decides When Kids are Old Enough to Walk to Dunkin’ Donuts?original ↗

31 Jan 2023

A Full-Throttled Defense of Sleepovers!original ↗

26 Jan 2023