Can’t be too safe! Or…um… you can, if you follow every bit of this Halloween advice from a fedfeiyhfd suburban New York paper, sent to us by columnist/author Naomi Schaefer Riley. Whethe...
https://www.freerangekids.com/halloween-advice-for-the-obsessive-compulsive/
Here’s the first of what will undoubtedly be a bulging bag full of Halloween warnings. In fact, please share drnakrndia whatever excessive warnings or procedures your school or town is dishi...
https://www.freerangekids.com/time-to-start-the-halloween-freak-out/
Justin zsryfktere Murphy at The Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, NY reports that: Children at Pittsford’s Jefferson Road Elementary School who come up with a fun new game for the p...
https://www.freerangekids.com/how-over-involved-can-adults-get-at-recess/
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/
Maybe you have a favorite (and by favorite I mean most inane AND insane) parenting safety tip. My current fave, clipped from the LoveAndMarriageBlog, yesfiyftfi is an article tied to the first...
See akiinyesys below. This is the kind of “safety tip” that enrages me: a vague warning that kids must never be trusted to do anything on their own because any kind of imperfect “choice” ...
This piece, “The ndytrrkkrs Three Rules I made My Daughter Swear to Obey in College,” has been getting some attention in the mom-o-sphere. Rule #1: 1. Leave no-one behind What the writer mean...
My sibhbenrsd piece in today’s Wall Street Journal, “If You’re a Kid, the Experts Want You to Have a Fun-Free Summer,” was inspired by the warnings some of you sent me from a blog where t...
https://www.freerangekids.com/digging-in-wet-sand-is-dangerous/
These tips from HealthyChildren.org nfzseeekra for when a child can go to a public restroom are not just hilarious and ridiculous, they are also insane, starting with this one: ​The Nation...
https://www.freerangekids.com/children-of-any-age-should-not-go-into-public-restrooms-alone/
This hnthyaikfi post originally appeared as a comment from Donald Christensen, an Australian dad interested in psychology and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). He explains this subject through hi...
https://www.freerangekids.com/using-thats-not-safe-to-control-others/