Beloved Reason
readers, I ask you: Are your children bothering you right now? Are
they interfering with your ability to donate to our Webathon? We are in the final
stretch—one day left to make it to $200,000—and we would hate for
you to feel like you need to keep an eye on those little (or not so
little) buggers every second of every day. So send ’em outside to
play (winter? what’s that?) so that you can concentrate on figuring
out just how much you’re going to donate to the
cause.
Feeling a little guilty about letting the spawn fend for
themselves? Don’t! For justification—and common sense analysis of
modern helicopter parenting hysteria—look no further than the shiny
new Reason writer Facebook and Twitter just can’t get
enough of: Lenore Skenazy!
The proprietress of Free-Range Kids, she
jumped over to Reason this summer to share thrills,
chills, and parenting skills with our liberty-minded
readers.
You may remember her from such daily nutpunch highlights
as:
- Mom Jailed Because She Let Her 9-Year-Old Daughter
Play in the Park Unsupervised—The mom, Debra Harrell, a
low-income black woman, did something totally innocent, that you or
I might do: Let her kid play in a safe park outdoors, during the
summer, while she worked. - Another Mom Thrown in Jail for Letting Kids Play at
Park - Mom Arrested for Letting Kid Play in Lego Store
While She Shopped - Kindergartener Pulls Down Pants, Forced to Sign
‘Sexual Misconduct’ Confession - Student Suspended for Slicing Apple During Healthy
Snacks Presentation - Bureaucrats Bulldoze Beloved Playground for Special
Needs Kids
Not to mention Lenore’s sound Reason TV advice to chill out on
Halloween:
And hey, here’s an idea: All that money you save by giving your
kids a chance to mess around, be bored, and just be kids, instead
of schlepping them from one expensive Gymboree birthday parties,
travel soccer game, and intensive Mandarin lesson to another—why
don’t you donate some of
it to Reason?
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