Canada’s national paper, The Globe and Mail, just came out with a big, blazing, bad-ass defense of everything we are…
Browsing: Infantilizing young folk
If you’re wondering how far our fears of accidents, predators and insurance claims can take us from sane to nutty,…
A confession: I learned to ride a bike when I was 9, probably the oldest of all my friends. Maybe…
Mike Tang, the California chemist who got 56 days’ “hard labor” for making his 8-year-old son walk home at about…
An exchange between an 18-year-old and her mom has gone viral, reports the website Shareably: Kaelyn is 18, has graduated…
This wonderful essay by Stephanie Fairyington states it baldly: Why have we decided that adults should give their seats to…
A reader writes that her high school student son is not allowed to cross the street you see here: Dear…
This cascade of emails between a Free-Range dad and his more helicopter ex-wife is difficult to read. But over the…
After a bus full of middle schoolers in Raytown, Missouri, drove past a person dead from suicide about 50 feet…
Remember, folks, what SEEMS like just a normal amount of supervision now — that is, constant — was not normal…