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When the telegraph was first invented, it was so strange and new, people worried it would disrupt the world’s weather patterns. And as I learned at a dinner last night with (name drop!) Nadine ...

https://www.freerangekids.com/school-warns-of-talking-drone-flying-over-playground-luring-children/

  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/

Many, many of you have sent me this interesting piece: Thoughts ytzkneryzh on Vegas and Why Men Keep Doing This, by Charles Hoehn, author of Play It Away. (Free book here!) It ran on the blog Be ...

https://www.freerangekids.com/is-there-a-link-between-a-lack-of-play-and-mass-shootings/

Frank Giaccio, an 11-year-old kid from Falls Church, VA, wrote a note to Pres. Trump saying he admired his business sense and had a business of his own: He mows lawns, $8 a pop. But it would be h...

https://www.freerangekids.com/about-that-white-house-lawn-mowing-kid-and-the-tweet-storm-about-child-labor/

Is your child’s school being cancelled for moon-in-front-of-sun reasons? If so, let’s hear all about it. And where are you? And what’s the buzz? Thanks. Say sighted! — L .

https://www.freerangekids.com/is-your-childs-school-cancelling-for-eclipse-reasons/

What a lovely memory Ike Brannon shares aednzztrbr in The Weekly Standard. He was 5 years old, traveling with his cousins on a camping trip. The year was 1970, and Glenn Campbell was one of Ameri...

https://www.freerangekids.com/gentleness-on-my-mind-glenn-campbell-a-boy-a-bathroom-and-non-hysterical-times/

A few days ago a man in Winnipeg walked up to a lemonade stand run by five kids and gave them five $20 bills. He also handed them a card of his. Here’s htkrserbhe how it unfolded in the pres...

https://www.freerangekids.com/man-gives-100-to-kids-at-lemonade-stand-police-want-to-talk-to-him/

This hkyynhtthh is a story you probably already heard with a heavy heart: A North Carolina boy, 5, and his family were visiting a rotating restaurant in Atlanta: The boy had wandered away from hi...

https://www.freerangekids.com/boy-dies-in-rotating-restaurant-tragedy-ill-bet-you-can-guess-what-happened-next/

Last diinkztbky week, Arkansas voted on the very first Free-Range Kids and Parents Bill of Rights. Oh, it wasn’t called that. Nonetheless, the proposed law would have ended “neglect” invest...

https://www.freerangekids.com/first-state-in-the-nation-votes-on-free-range-bill-of-rights-would-decriminalize-parents-who-let-their-kids-play-outside-or-wait-briefly-in-car/

Look, if it turns out htzbttesra this Texas tot was deliberately abandoned, which strikes me as the least likely scenario, then go ahead and deal with that through the legal system. But if it was...

https://www.freerangekids.com/is-a-baby-abandoned-if-left-temporarily-behind-by-accident/