Lenore Skenazy is president of Let Grow, a nonprofit promoting childhood independence and resilience, and founder of the Free-Range Kids movement.
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Suspension not reversed
29-year-old Kyle Cross says he accidentally bedded a 14-year-old runaway.
Making helicopter parenting the law of the land.
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Zach Anderson's sentence vacated.
Parents, keep your children close.
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Imperfect parents are not necessarily abusive parents.
Eventually, the family caught her in the act. She now faces a misdemeanor charge.
Happy is the child, 8 or 18, who is not constantly afraid and aggrieved.
An absurd Coby Persin YouTube video wants parents to panic over nothing.
Court-ordered shotgun wedding?
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Paranoia vs. parenting.
Better off indoors, eating gummy worms.
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But we're all in this together.
Sen. Mike Lee's addition to the Every Child Achieves Act is a start.
Child services to the rescue.
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Gives kids the right to walk to school.
Same judge, same story.
Public shaming, not public safety
The Princess and the Pea's revenge
Cops took the kid to the precinct, rather than her house.
Another heart-wrenching state-sanctioned kidnapping.