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UPDATE! EVEN THE PARENTS SAY THIS WAS NOT AN ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING! Is This Really “Disturbing Footage of an Attempted Kidnapping at Dunkin’ Donuts”?

By Lenore Skenazy - 04/06/2017 - 5 minute read

Update from Philly.com, which was even kind enough to alert us to this!  Police on Thursday issued this statement: "On April 5th,2017, the parents of …

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Group that Put Missing Kids’ Pictures on Milk Cartons NOW Says, “Don’t Teach Kids Stranger Danger”

By Lenore Skenazy - 04/02/2017 - 7 minute read

On Good Morning America last week, a spokesman for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children -- the people who put the missing kids' pictures …

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Breastfeeding Is Not The Only Decent Way to Feed a Child

By Lenore Skenazy - 03/31/2017 - 3 minute read

This letter illustrates the kind of "Mothers must be perfect or all bets are off!" belief that makes my blood boil. (Ouch!)  Dear Free-Range Kids: …

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“Sex Traffickers at Ikea?” Free-Range Kids Cited by Snopes!

By Lenore Skenazy - 03/28/2017 - 5 minute read

When yet another mom wrote about her kids ALMOST being sex trafficked -- an assessment she made on the basis of noticing some men at …

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“It’s Too Dangerous For Kids to Play Outside!” — How to Fight Back

By Lenore Skenazy - 03/27/2017 - 1 minute read

It is a quirk of our era that we don't seem able to do anything -- fill in a crossword puzzle, drink a glass of …

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Not Every Tragedy Contains a Moral

By Lenore Skenazy - 03/16/2017 - 2 minute read

A reminder from a reader that the way we package our "news" ends up affecting the way we see the world, and our job as …

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