Hi Readers! My friend Bob Eckstein, a cartoonist for The New Yorker (la-di-dah!), came up with this Free-Range Cartoon: a…

Readers — Here is a story that does not surprise me. It does, however, enrage me and I am hoping…

This is just too weird: Maine passed a law, about to take effect, that forbids stores from allowing any “child”…

Hi Readers — We’ve been spending today thinking about what it would mean to be the youngest person to sail…

Ahoy, Readers! Today’s “Free-Range” controversy concerns Laura Dekker, a 13-year-old   in Holland who is already an accomplished sailor and…

Dear Readers: You may recall that last week, Dear Abby passed along the  advice that children take a walkie talkie…

Thanks to Pyromomma for sending along this amazing photo! “Scientists Discover Portal to Outside World.” Show your kids! (And thanks…

Sometimes the boogey man is just that, as these parents  found out: http://img29.imageshack.us/i/securedownloadbon.jpg/

In the town of Milford, Connecticut, in 2005, a grandma named Una decided to build a pool. That way her…

Hi Readers! This just in, from Free-Ranger Deb Turner, who asks: “If you were shopping with your nine year old,…