Daycare Dismantles Swing Sets To Score Higher on State 'Early Achievers' Test
Penalizing play time
Free-Range parenting is about fostering independence, not letting kids do whatever they want.
Maimuna Hassan made a common mistake. Should that be a crime?
Government officials should use the success of the competition as an educational moment.
In the home of the brave, a kid can't hold a pencil on the school bus.
"Apparently the ad generated multiple phone calls from paranoid neighbors thinking I was using my child as a slave."
Ironically, the kids were watching the movie "Home Alone" when the cops showed up for no good reason.
Reason's livestream conversation with Lenore Skenazy.
Aborted snowball fights, unused playground equipment, baseless child trafficking panics, and more.
"Most people-we're talking hardened criminals who try to cut it off-have ended up in the ER."
Nine-year-old Colorado boy leads successful challenge to 100-year-old ban on snowball fights.
This is not just about kids, but about the adults they will become.
"Society is all too ready to interpret the most innocent of gestures as a prelude to abusing a child."
The 45-year-old cooperative has ground rules, which means D.C. government considers it an unlicensed daycare.
Is that an allegation of abuse?
Braylen Carwell says he didn't eat anything, and previous candy poisonings turned out to be hoaxes.
There is zero evidence that sex offenders prey on trick or treaters.
"Pushing for new laws aimed at keeping kids 'safe' from 'sex offenders' on Halloween is nonsense."
And anyone under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
A government solution won't result in the proverbial free lunch that supporters hope for.
A judge has granted Payton Summons' parents a restraining order against the hospital.
Judge: "There is nothing in the record which would lead this court to believe that the mother is unwilling to provide the appropriate care for the child."
Those tykes are worth big bucks to institutional educators, so if you don't hand 'em over, you might be slapped with fines or even incarceration.
"I am still trying to work out how he figured it out."
"No child under the age of 10 in the United States that has ever been snatched from a parent in public and trafficked for sex."
"We want to investigate…because you just don't know."
These days, kids are heading back to increasingly varied learning experiences that might or might not include anything recognizable as a traditional school.
"An anonymous troll has weaponized New York's Department of Child Services against my whole family."
When we overestimate danger, we treat everyone like they are fragile and in need of supervision.
Convicted of a sex crime with an 18-year-old female, he isn't allowed contact with any minors.
"When it comes to kids' safety, feelings are facts."
Slides were designed for kids 5 and up, and these tots are only 4.
"The number of children separated from their parents at the border since April is almost equal to the number taken by CPS every three days."
'They already had a foster parent in the room, to remove my son... before they ever proved there was an emergency situation.'
A mom says her daughter was almost abducted at a rest stop. That's a stretch.
New York appellate court reverses a judgment (likely prompted by one of the parents' religious beliefs) that bars either parent from feeding the child "fish, meat, or poultry" without the other's consent.
An NPR report on "three-parent babies" in Ukraine provokes bioethical handwringing.
The presumption applies even when one or more of the parents is opposed.
I'd suggest granting "Gold Bouncy Star" ratings for houses secured with particularly long, particularly strong spikes.
Naomi Schaefer Riley on religious liberty, foster care, privacy, parenting, and how to help kids who need a home
"Student safety in any activity is our primary focus."
The percentage of young adults saying abortion should be legal in all or most cases has risen 10 percentage points since 2015.