I subscribe to the Free Range Kids blog which is a call to parents and society to return to the earlier days of child-rearing where there wasn’t this disorder called hyper-protectionism [my word].
Here is some background where Lenore Skenazy tells why she started the blog. It was precipitated by her op-ed piece entitled “Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Take The Subway Alone.”
Stunting Our Kids With Safety is the most recent post and is what I mean to draw your attention to. It deals with what happens when the school gets involved.
Humorous and sad simultaneously.
