How to Lick a Slug/Free Range Kids

[Maggie/ilea02]

So I found an interesting article about kids not being outside as much. It has an interesting title.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/opinion/02kristof.html?_r=1

The other site I wanted to plug is called Free Range Kids. There is a book by the same name by Lenore Skenazy.

Here is the description from the site because she says it better than I could -
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Do you ever…
..let your kid ride a bike to the library? Walk alone to school? Take a bus, solo? Or are you thinking about it? If so, you are raising a Free Range Kid! At Free Range, we believe in safe kids. We believe in helmets, car seats and safety belts. We do NOT believe that every time school age children go outside, they need a security detail. Most of us grew up Free Range and lived to tell the tale. Our kids deserve no less. This site dedicated to sane parenting. Share your stories, tell your tips and maybe one day I will try to collect them in a book. Meantime, let's try to help our kids embrace life! (And maybe even clear the table.)"

http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/

I heard Lenore interviewed on the Manic Mommies.

Wanted to post this here to share with others and it could be a topic for FFTH.

[Maggie/ilea02]

I knew there was something else I meant to say.

Again from Lerone's site "When I wrote a column for The New York Sun on “Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Take The Subway Alone,” I figured I’d get a few e-mails pro and con.

Two days later I was on the Today Show, MSNBC, FoxNews and all manner of talk radio with a new title under my smiling face: “America’s Worst Mom?” "

[Cliff Ravenscraft]

This is an excellent topic.  Thank you so much Maggie!  This week, we are covering finances, but I this topic here would be great the following week.  Thank you so much!

[goode]

Wow, it's funny that I just read this, because I was just having this conversation with my fiancee. He was previously married and has two teenagers and they get driven everyone and I was telling him when I was 14, 15, 16 I used to take the public bus everywhere if I wanted to go out with my friends. We could go to the mall, to the movies, and to some of my other friend's houses if they weren't within walking distances.