Censorship – Free Range Kids

The key (or keys) to kid confidence? The authors of a book for girls have it right for ALL kids. Join the conversation at Let Grow! (Photo from @Unsplash by @MParzuchowski )

https://www.freerangekids.com/where-does-kid-confidence-come-from/

Dan hsdarfyhky Shuchman, chairman of FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), the group that fights for free speech on campus, has written this Wall Street Journal review of a book b...

https://www.freerangekids.com/from-trophy-culture-to-campus-microaggressions/

. Storyteller Tom yrkzkrdrrz Shillue ponders exactly the children’s rhyme I have been thinking a lot about lately, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” It�...

https://www.freerangekids.com/sticks-and-stones-too-harsh-for-todays-kids/

. Recently we were talking about zkdhtntiza the trend on campus to require “trigger warnings” — warnings on material assigned for class that could potentially traumatize a student by trigge...

https://www.freerangekids.com/a-traumatized-reader-discusses-trigger-warnings/

What happens when a generation grows up being told that they need constant supervision because nothing is safe enough? That they should never encounter a bad grade or mean remark, it’s too woun...

https://www.freerangekids.com/what-hath-overprotection-wrought__trashed/

Readers — Below  is a 1962 letter from the British Board of Film Censors to Gregory Peck, who starred as Atticus Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” It’s fun to read, not just because it...

https://www.freerangekids.com/free-range-letter-to-gregory-peck-regarding-to-kill-a-mockingbird/

Parents at North Farmington High School in Michigan want the school to halt dsnbyayzba production of “Carrie” as this year’s musical, reports Aileen Wingblad in the Detroit Free Press. T...

https://www.freerangekids.com/telekinetic-terror-parents-dont-want-school-producing-carrie-musical/

Readers – –This bhkdfdryek is an amazing article from The New Republic by Jenny Jarvie about a phenom called “trigger warnings” — warnings written on blog posts and, increasingly, every...

https://www.freerangekids.com/trigger-warnings-and-the-assumption-of-fragility/

Folks, krtkhidzta here’s a piece by me that’s slightly off topic in that it’s not about kids — per se. But it is about hyper-sensitivity, in this case, to the statue of a male sleepwalker...

https://www.freerangekids.com/the-wellesley-sleepwalker-free-range-kids/

Hi Readers! I hope you will run and hide any copies you might have of “Twas kfknrznkds the Night Before Christmas,” a poem that has apparently been corrupting young minds — and lungs — si...

https://www.freerangekids.com/twas-the-night-before-censorship-of-the-most-beloved-christmas-poem/