Free-Range Kids

Civil Liberties

Maryland Parents who Let Kids Walk to Park Still Under Investigation

CPS won't let parents be.

Lenore Skenazy | 1.27.2015 4:59 PM

Policy

Lenore Skenazy's New Show Brings Free-Range Parenting to Your TV Screen

Show airs Thursdays at 9 pm on Discovery Life

Robby Soave | 1.22.2015 3:52 PM

Politics

Watch: Anthony L. Fisher on "Red Eye" Discussing Pope Francis, Oscar Snubs, and Government Assaults on Free-Range Parents

Anthony Fisher | 1.16.2015 2:21 PM

Politics

Watch Anthony L. Fisher Talkin' Pope Francis, Oscar Snubs, Free-Range Kids on FNC's "Red Eye" Tonight at 3a ET/12a PT

Anthony Fisher | 1.15.2015 5:22 PM

Civil Liberties

Child Services Still Hounding Couple Who Let Their Kids Play Outside

The latest from a family threatened by CPS.

Lenore Skenazy | 1.14.2015 11:30 AM

Culture

Sandy Hook Parents Sue School Over Safety Issues

Behaving as if mass death is lurking around every corner won't make our kids any safer.

Lenore Skenazy | 1.14.2015 9:05 AM

Civil Liberties

To Catch a Non-Predator, Try Entrapment

Lenore Skenazy | 1.12.2015 9:30 AM

Civil Liberties

Government Orders Family to Dismantle Homemade Skating Rink

Lenore Skenazy | 1.6.2015 3:25 PM

Civil Liberties

Worried About Legal Action, Dad Calls Sheriff's Office to Witness Him Spanking His Kid

Lenore Skenazy | 1.5.2015 11:05 AM

Civil Liberties

ICYMI, Top 10 Nanny State Fails of Last Year

Lenore Skenazy | 1.2.2015 3:01 PM

Culture

Abduction Obsession Means Virginia Hospitals Won't Release 'First Baby of 2015' Names

Lenore Skenazy | 1.2.2015 10:12 AM

Civil Liberties

Here Are 10 Outrageous 'Zero Tolerance' Follies of 2014

Here are 10 of the most infamous "zero tolerance" punishments handed down to kids-and even some adults-this year.

Lenore Skenazy | 12.29.2014 9:30 AM

Free-Range Kids

CPS Threatens Dad: Let Your Kids Play Outside and We'll Take Them Away

Lenore Skenazy | 12.23.2014 9:45 AM

Culture

150-Year-Old Christmas Tradition Cancelled for 'Safety' Concerns

Lenore Skenazy | 12.18.2014 2:20 PM

Free-Range Kids

Kid Suspended for Bringing an Empty Shell Casing to School

Lenore Skenazy | 12.16.2014 9:10 AM

Culture

New York City Welds Playground Equipment So It Doesn't Move

Lenore Skenazy | 12.10.2014 11:06 AM

Civil Liberties

New Law Lets Courts Decide If You Are a Sensitive Enough Parent

Lenore Skenazy | 12.8.2014 9:30 AM

Culture

Pedophile Panic at the Salvation Army: No Teen Boys Allowed, Too Dangerous

Lenore Skenazy | 12.2.2014 2:45 PM

Free-Range Kids

Beware of Non-Existent Threat, Warns Consumer Protection Czar

Lenore Skenazy | 11.26.2014 9:10 AM

Civil Liberties

School Considered Canceling Nutcracker Trip To Protect Kids from Christmas Tree Exposure

Lenore Skenazy | 11.23.2014 3:15 PM

Free-Range Kids

Dirty Needle in the Halloween Candy? Nobody Panic

Lenore Skenazy | 11.21.2014 9:15 AM

Civil Liberties

Schools to Parents: Pick Up Your Kids from the Bus Or We'll Sic Child Services on You

Robby Soave | 11.20.2014 11:13 AM

Civil Liberties

Middle Schoolers Suspended for Pretending to Smoke Candy

Lenore Skenazy | 11.18.2014 9:45 AM

Politics

Kids Terrified As Cops Enter School With Guns Drawn—But It Was a Practice Drill

Lenore Skenazy | 11.17.2014 8:45 AM

Civil Liberties

Bureaucrats Bulldoze Beloved Playground for Special Needs Kids

Lenore Skenazy | 11.13.2014 9:15 AM

Free-Range Kids

Law Says One Thing, Child Services Says Another: Don't Let Your Kid Outside

Lenore Skenazy | 11.7.2014 9:05 AM

Civil Liberties

Student Suspended for Slicing Apple During Healthy Snacks Presentation

Lenore Skenazy | 11.3.2014 10:25 AM

Culture

School: 'Halloween Snacks Shall Contain No More Than 8 Grams of Total Fat'

Lenore Skenazy | 10.31.2014 10:01 AM

Civil Liberties

Mom Demands Law to Force Kids to Wear Bright Clothes

Lenore Skenazy | 10.28.2014 8:45 AM

Civil Liberties

Man Guilty of Owning Sexy Images of Cartoon Children

Lenore Skenazy | 10.20.2014 3:30 PM

Culture

Trick or Treat or Drugs? Police Panicked About Pot-Laced Halloween Candy

Lenore Skenazy | 10.17.2014 11:45 AM

Free-Range Kids

Sexting Didn't Ruin This Girl's Life, But an Arrest Might Have

Lenore Skenazy | 10.15.2014 10:45 AM

Civil Liberties

School Sics Cops, K-9 Unit on Old Man Looking for Dandelions

Lenore Skenazy | 10.8.2014 1:17 PM

Civil Liberties

Schools Ban Swings Because Everything Is Dangerous

Lenore Skenazy | 10.7.2014 11:30 AM

Civil Liberties

Moms Fed Up with School 'Stranger Danger' Paranoia

Lenore Skenazy | 10.1.2014 3:30 PM

Civil Liberties

Mom Tells Therapist About Briefly Leaving Kids Alone, Shrink Calls Cops

Lenore Skenazy | 9.26.2014 2:50 PM

Civil Liberties

School Says Students Need to Hear What Madman's Gunfire Sounds Like

Chillingly fatalistic.

Lenore Skenazy | 9.22.2014 12:48 PM

Free-Range Kids

Are the Parents of a Teen Murderer Guilty of Not Anticipating His Crimes?

Lenore Skenazy | 9.18.2014 12:16 PM

Civil Liberties

The Onion Joins Reason in Bashing the War on Moms

Robby Soave | 9.16.2014 4:53 PM

Civil Liberties

Child Services to Mom Who Did Nothing Wrong: 'Just Don't Let Your Kids Play Outside'

Cops think letting a kid play outside, within view of the house, is a crime.

Lenore Skenazy | 9.15.2014 11:52 AM

Politics

Stop Criminalizing Parenting: Free Range Kids' Lenore Skenazy on Our Irrational Fears over Child Safety

Anthony Fisher and Nick Gillespie | 9.14.2014 9:30 AM

Free-Range Kids

Paramedics Examine Child Who Waited in Car Less Than 5 Minutes

Lenore Skenazy | 9.8.2014 12:24 PM

Free-Range Kids

Hot Cars and Halloween Candies Don't Kill Many Kids

Lenore Skenazy | 9.5.2014 4:15 PM

World

School Bans Dangerous Activity Known as 'Doing A Cartwheel'

Lenore Skenazy | 9.3.2014 2:23 PM

Politics

Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children?!

Focus on your own kids and stop criminalizing parenthood

Tyler Koteskey | 9.3.2014 9:00 AM