Sane Parenting--"Free Range Kids"

I'm sending it on to my daughter. I'm afraid her son (my 6 year old grandson) is going to break her heart someday when she tries to follow him to college so she can do his laundry!

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It is good and proper to respect the U.S. flag, perpetuated with the blood of American heroes. It is a fatal mistake not to recognize those who wrap themselves in the same flag to cover up their crimes against the American people.
~ Sherman H. Skolnick

site. Free the children!

but don't see letting my kids be. Things seem different these days, more predators. I grew up in a very small town (10k), and now live in a small city (200k). I trust my kids, but don't trust others to look out for them.

Imagine the horror of knowing some perv has your kid?

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We don't know how to mind our own business
'Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
'Cause there's a monster on the loose

Of childhood and bandaids . . .
how precious and unique . . .

Of tears and sour things . . .
as we learned about technique.

I wholeheartedly AGREE!! Raising your kids these days is EVERYONE'S business. Kids can't be kids anymore. SUPERvision so strict that children aren't able to experience life without asking for instructions.
When my oldest children were in elementary school, I was told by a school social worker that they were highly functional. She said that was a warning sign to her. A sign of neglect. Neglected children tend to be able to self govern because they have had to take care of themselves without parental supervision. I said..."Isn't that the goal?"
The more I think about this subject the more it makes sense. Provide lots of fear and guilt propaganda so that it disables the ability of parents to allow children freedom. Freedom to self govern, to truly know who they are without being told. More sheep for the corral.

I sure like this concept. It seems like it strikes at the libertarian spirit.

Just an observation: I live in a very small town, and kids walk to school if they live nearby. A lot of kids are driven into school by parents, and there is the typical bus service.

But you hardly ever seen kids out and about...just exploring around. In the two years I've lived here, I can only think of two examples. The first, some boys were shooting BB guns at a baseball field's signs, and the second, a group of small kids led by an older girl were walking around in a ditch behind a fence.

I'm outside all the time; you'd think I'd see kids more often out playing, but even in a small ranching community, it is rare.

In my vision of a better world, the "popsickle index" would favor the individual liberty-out in nature-explorations of children.

I have 4 grown children and 9 grand children. I posted the site on FaceBook. :o)

"Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6pAcBXt2j8