The infantilization of our kids goes hand in hand with the time-wastification of us parents. Here’s an example from, of…
Browsing: Infantilizing young folk
The question of the day (week/year/decade/century): Dear Free-Range Kids: I was wondering if you had any advice when you are…
You’ll recall the case of Mike Tang, the California chemist who made his son Isaac, age 8, walk home a…
Here’s a sign from a church in suburban Chicago. The reader who sent it to me wrote: I’ve shown this…
This Daily Mail piece by David Derbyshire is so profound it has been cited over and over: How Children Lost…
It was the year of Pokemon Panic—any toy that gets kids outside must be stopped! —and the year a Florida…
As we contemplate the family being investigated, the kids being stripped, and the dad doing time in jail, all because…
A 7-year-old boy in Switzerland was ostensibly so “pampered” by his “overprotective” parents that he now is being sent to…
UPDATE!The Guardian reports that: A grammar school boy missing for two months after telling his parents he was bored with…
Who says we’re treating our kids like snowflakes? Oh wait. Dear Free-Range Kids: You’re the only one I can complain…