Safety hysteria is everywhere, but nowhere more obvious than in “must read” warnings to parents, like the ones discussed below.…
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Readers — Pay heed this important warning! Hi Lenore, I hope all is well! I wanted to circle back on…
From the: “Don’t confuse me with the facts” dept. comes this note about a note: Dear Free-Range Kids: Our weekly…
Canada’s National Post reports that the Toronto Leaside Girls Hockey Association has instructed its coaches: No touching the players…even on…
Congratulations! It’s a bouncing bundle of paranoid fantasy! The first crazy fear of 2015 goes to three Virginia hospitals. According…
Hi Folks! I was just reading the latest from the amazing Centre for Parenting Culture Studies in Kent, England, and…
Readers, Here’s an infuriating, reassuring piece (first one, then the other) by Laura Flores Shaw in the Huffington Post: “Stop…
Don’t turn paranoia into policy! That’s the plea of this phenomenal Globe & Mail editorial. It was written because the…
Readers — A New York kindergarten has cancelled its end of the year show, to devote more time to “preparing…
Readers — I am honored to present this brilliant piece by Jan Macvarish, a research fellow at the University of…