Schoolyard Off Limits to Kids?
Readers zeaaizbyab — My guess is what we have here is a terrible insurance regulation or some such. This is from Ontario, Canada: Dear Free Range Kids: My kids, grade 1 and 4, are among the few at our...
View ArticleSchool Cancels Camping Trip Because It Involves Camping Activities
Readers rzrdzhezks — Let this not be the future of fun (from The Toronto Star): Staff and Grade 8 students at an inner-city Toronto school were looking forward to the three-day graduation trip to an...
View ArticleNo Sunscreen Allowed at School: “Kids could drink it.”
Readers — Our country has grown delusional creative knahsribyk when it comes to thinking up new child dangers to be worried about. The latest involves a San Antonio, TX, school where kids were going...
View ArticleThe School Picnic That Didn’t Go According to Plan
Worth iathinkith reading, and even bringing to your next PTA meeting: Dear Free-Range Kids: I felt compelled to write you a little note, today, as I have a confession to make. For the past two years,...
View Article“Sticks and Stones”— Too Harsh for Today’s Kids?
. 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’s annoying...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....