“Wow!!!!” “Congrats!” “Next step: New York Times crossword puzzle!” I began receiving such texts on Friday, after achieving the modern-day equivalent of immortality: I became a clue on Jeopardy!. The category was “Points of View,” and the clue was this: “Lenore Skenazy, who wrote of letting her 9-year-old right the NYC subway alone, moved this […]
Have you noticed all the kids at the airport lately? Not so long ago, you could only find them at the terminal playground areas or the gates, where their parents kept a watchful eye on them. But no longer. “It’s a free-for-all,” said Lisamarie Monaco, an insurance saleswoman from Jacksonville, Florida. She knows a thing […]
Another year, another chance to bang your head against the wall, with good reason—and with Reason. Here are 10 incidents from 2023 that will alarm everyone who supports the free-range kids movement. Unspecified danger in Aisle 4: The University of Michigan surveyed parents of children ages 9–11 and found that half wouldn’t even let their […]