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FreeRangeKids
Personal blog · freerangekids.wordpress.comculturepolitics
FreeRangeKids is a personal blog at freerangekids.wordpress.com about culture and politics. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Lenore Skenazy's Free Range Kids blog, which commenters point to on over-protective parenting and exaggerated childhood dangers. Commenters call it a favorite and link it as a resource.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Give Our Kids the Freedom We Had
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-02-05
- /2008/04/06/why-i-let-my-9-year-old-ride-the-subway-alone/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-11-22
What Hacker News says?
I think you're 100% right about over-parenting. Hence the need for something like this: https://freerangekids.wordpress.com/ But I don't think the author of the article is (necessarily) there. I suspect the author is already pretty close to the middle ground you're proposing. I think the responses you've gotten on this have a lot more to do with people feeling bad for how you seem to be treating the author (though y…
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on “Why I Go Home: A Developer Dad's Manifesto”Lenore Skenazy is actually the leader of an entire movement around kids being able to do more of what they want (hence the book: Free Range Kids). You can check out the blog here: http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/ Also, she caused quite a stir a few years ago for letting her 9 year old kid ride the subway alone. Her story about it is here: http://www.nysun.com/news/why-i-let-my-9-year-old-ride-subwa...
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on “Eek, A Male”I definitely agree with your sentiment, but then I go talk to parents. Parents are protective of their kids. Some are loose, but others are not. I don't have kids, but have worked with them extensively, so I will refer you to some discussions around the issue: http://www.blogher.com/9-year-old-rides-subway-alone-mom-her... http://www.nysun.com/news/why-i-let-my-9-year-old-ride-subwa... (also check out the comments o…
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on “Google Will Become an AI Company”A favorite blog I read, Free Range Kids, follows this trend in parenting and attempts to counter it. http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/ The dangers to children from very mundane sources and activities seem just as exaggerated as the dangers from crime. The trend has been developing for a long time, too. When I look at the sort of stuff my dad got to play with as a kid in the 50's, I'm downright jealous.
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on “Crime in America keeps going down, yet the American public refuses to believe it”I live in Australia - we might be getting a bigger firewall than China's - I know all about Nanny States. When I have kids, one of my aims as a parent will be to try and err on the side of freedom. (Although I can see that will be a hard choice to make at points). Also - this was a good link I picked up off here/reddit recently: http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/
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on “Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic”similar issues are discussed regularly on the Free Range Kids blog: http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/
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on “What parents worry about vs what they should worry about”Removing danger from the home is the very best thing that a parent can do. All children are impressionable, and being exposed to evil early will effect the rest of their life. So, as long as you have that handled (as good as it can be handled), then your child will be mostly okay. Of course, we'd need a very good definition of evil. Also, Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone: http://freerangekids.wordpress.…
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on “Parenting in the age of Paranoia: A Small Manifesto”http://freerangekids.wordpress.com (and associated books/links) has a similar theme for those who are interested in this. And in general - I agree. (Although it's easy to say that when you don't have kids)
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on “Parenting in the age of Paranoia: A Small Manifesto”
