Happy Birthday to the woman who gave us Henry Huggins, Ramona, Beezus, the Mouse and the Motorcycle (my God, how…
Browsing: Infantilizing young folk
This story is everywhere today. As CBS News reports: A 9-year-old reporter who wrote about a suspected murder in her…
Free country? Not if you think your kids are old enough to walk to school AND learn a lesson. A…
. For a while, our cousins across the pond had a hard time distinguishing between the truly risky and and…
At first I read these official Girl Scout Safety Tips as saying girls age 6-12 must be supervised by an…
. Congratulations, Rhode Island! Looks like you are about to become the proud parents of every child in the state,…
. How does change happen? How do we give kids — and ourselves — the freedom we all deserve? Freedom…
Storyteller Tom Shillue ponders exactly the children’s rhyme I have been thinking a lot about lately, “Sticks and stones may…
. What does a revolutionary look like? I can’t tell exactly — I can only see this one from behind.…
Is there a war on parents in Rhode Island? Recall that this is the state that once wanted to make…