You may have noticed that our culture has a habit of buzzkilling almost anything involving kids. Everything that children do/see/eat/hear/touch/read/lick is a chance for them to get hurt/bullied/sick/disappointed or traumatized forever. That’s why it is such a joy to find this amazing, free app that allows you to create a Bingo card filled with whatever
Let’s hear it for calling hysteria hysteria and not, “Just being safe.” In a huge article about parental anxiety and what it’s doing to kids, Stephen Marshe in Maclean’s magazine (Canada’s answer to Time), writes: Recently I let my 11-year-old son walk home from his school in downtown Toronto. He walked four blocks through one
Busybodies have been with us as long as flies, buzzing around and making life miserable. What’s new? Cell phones. With the power to call the cops or child protective services with almost zero effort, they have the power to potentially disrupt, or even ruin our lives. That’s why the Utah Free-Range Parenting law, declaring it
What does it take to qualify as a babysitter these days? Dear Let Grow: My 15 year-old daughter joined an online babysitter’s group to get more summer work gigs. It has been an eye opening experience as to parental expectations. She has multiple family references, straight A’s, and is WONDERFUL with children, especially keeping the
Youth soccer is one of the biggest activities in America. The authors below were the biggest boosters of all…until a sudden revelation. Carlo Celli is a professor at Bowling Green State University. More to the point, he has a lifetime of experience playing soccer across the world, and he has devoted a good part of
