In fdthtiyhkn Chester County, PA, kids will no longer get the chance to scramble for candy tossed from floats at the annual Halloween parade because suddenly the local tradition is too dangero...
https://www.freerangekids.com/watch-out-for-those-dangerous-marching-bands/
HEY! I forgot to add the video I made a few years ago about a cartwheel ban. Enjoy! . Yes, dbfeakzztb a school in Canada banned cartwheels. What’s worst about this is the school’s reasoning: ...
Katherine Mangu-Ward, editor of Reason nthtdfbare Magazine (where I am a contributor) interviewed the Fox Business Network host Kennedy. I’ve been on Kennedy’s show, she is fantastic and funn...
https://www.freerangekids.com/the-time-fox-tvs-kennedy-almost-had-her-baby-taken-away-by-the-state/
This “WARNING dytetnashf NO LIFEGUARD ON DUTY” sign comes to us from Ron Lieber, author of the “The Opposite of Spoiled.” He spied it at a Park City, Utah, rec center next to a kiddie spl...
https://www.freerangekids.com/no-lifeguard-sign-at-sprinkler-park/
If fiyftfiizn you’re wondering how far our fears of  accidents, predators and insurance claims can take us from sane to nutty, read on:  . Dear Free-Range Kids: Since all three kids are n...
The sign below signals the end of childhood — and parenting — as we know them. Apparently in Queensland, Australia, children are not allowed to walk or bike to school under age 12, and parent...
UPDATE: nidfndetsa This story is from Roxbury, NJ, not Roxbury, Mass. My bad. The area’s Wikipedia page lists crime stats from 2009: 0 murders, 3 robberies. In Roxbury, Mass, the school dis...
https://www.freerangekids.com/schools-advised-to-install-man-traps/
Readers — Have you heard of this program? Is there  a way to counter its draconian decrees? Dear zhnihyhbhz Free-Range Kids: I have been a volunteer for many years at my church, but now we h...
https://www.freerangekids.com/at-my-church-i-cant-even-be-alone-in-a-hallway-with-a-child/
. When I spoke at the Velo-City innherftyy Conference in Austria a few years back, the speaker before me declared that  helmet laws are so cumbersome and they make biking seem so scary that in...
. The tale below comes to us from Alisha, a former paramedic who says she is “very safety conscious but sick of trying to raise a child in a 100% risk-free environment! Its not even possible.�...
https://www.freerangekids.com/what-happens-when-you-set-off-the-tsa-groin-alarm/