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		<title>Is It Really Wrong for A School Administrator to THINK?</title>
		<link>http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/hows-about-zero-tolerance-for-zero-tolerance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Readers &#8212; Here&#8217;s a fantastic article on the Cub Scout-with-a-spork story &#8212; the one where a 6-year-old was sentenced to 45 days in reform school for bringing his beloved fork/knife/spoon eating utensil to school. The article, by Mark Steyn (my former colleague when I worked at The New York Sun),  goes on to look [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freerangekids.wordpress.com&blog=3396577&post=1852&subd=freerangekids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outrage of the Week: Maternity Ward Edition</title>
		<link>http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/outrage-of-the-week-baby-hospital-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lskenazy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/?p=1833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi Readers! Here you go!
Dear Free-Range Kids: I just had my first child a couple of months ago and within a day had our first experience with extreme safety proponents. I was in the hospital and a friend had come to meet my son. We decided to go on a walk around the ward, just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freerangekids.wordpress.com&blog=3396577&post=1833&subd=freerangekids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Free-Range Lecture At Yale</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Readers!
This is an hour-long lecture I gave at Yale last month, about everything Free-Range. Just thought I&#8217;d put it up here. Looking at it has taught me a couple of things, perhaps most saliently:  My green jacket is way less cool than I thought it was. Also: Need haircut!
Anyway &#8212; here you go. (Somehow I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freerangekids.wordpress.com&blog=3396577&post=1837&subd=freerangekids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Can Parents Trust a Teen?</title>
		<link>http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/letter-from-a-cooped-up-teen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Readers &#8212; Let&#8217;s help this teen together, shall we? Here is his letter:
Dear Free-Range Kids: You probably don&#8217;t get too many emails from kids and teens, but being a child with overbearing parents I have some things I&#8217;d like to ask.
I&#8217;m in the middle of reading your book (how sad, a kid reading a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freerangekids.wordpress.com&blog=3396577&post=1828&subd=freerangekids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Very Short Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Folks &#8212; Just found this description of me on one of my YouTube videos. I think I should put it on my business cards:
LOL. man i love this lady, but she sounds crazy sometimes. even though she&#8217;s right and makes sense
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		<title>Is Your Child in DANGER?</title>
		<link>http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/is-your-child-in-danger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lskenazy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/?p=1810</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi Readers! Here&#8217;s a nifty little brochure I picked up the other day for a child safety device. I won&#8217;t say which one, since I don&#8217;t want to give it any publicity. Perhaps you&#8217;ll see why. Here&#8217;s what the brochure said, in all its grammatical creativity. Please note: The dot-dot-dots are theirs. I haven&#8217;t left [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freerangekids.wordpress.com&blog=3396577&post=1810&subd=freerangekids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Threat Online</title>
		<link>http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/the-real-threat-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lskenazy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/?p=1802</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi Folks! Wow, leave your blog for one little day and the talk turns to porn. I feel like the Free-Range Parent of a blog.
Anyway, I was in D.C. at the Family Online Safety Institute&#8217;s annual conference and it was fantastic to be among all sort of bigwigs from places like Yahoo and Disney and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freerangekids.wordpress.com&blog=3396577&post=1802&subd=freerangekids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Family Online Safety Institute Conference</title>
		<link>http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/family-online-safety-institute-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/family-online-safety-institute-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lskenazy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/?p=1798</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s where I&#8217;m at, in Washington D.C.  I&#8217;ll let you know what I find out! So far, it&#8217;s just nice being reminded that the Internet is safer than the headlines make it sound.  You know &#8212; same as the real world. Virtually.
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		<title>A Wonderful Essay About Afterschool TV&#8230;and Life</title>
		<link>http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/a-wonderful-essay-about-afterschool-tv-and-life/</link>
		<comments>http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/a-wonderful-essay-about-afterschool-tv-and-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lskenazy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Soupy Sales]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/?p=1784</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Loved this essay about Soupy Sales. Maybe you will too. Note the last couple of paragraphs. And thanks to Angela Gunn for sending it in.  &#8211; Lenore
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		<title>Deep-ish Thoughts on Play</title>
		<link>http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/deep-ish-thoughts-on-play/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lskenazy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[joy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/?p=1787</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi Readers! Modern-day parenting keeps replacing playing time with &#8220;teaching time,&#8221; whether that&#8217;s time devoted to Sanskrit or soccer. Here&#8217;s a rather philosophical look at why play could be the ingredient that REALLY makes kids soar. (And society, too.) Thanks to Steve DeSanto for sending it in!
Dear Free-Range Kids: Your posting of the Gever Tulley [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freerangekids.wordpress.com&blog=3396577&post=1787&subd=freerangekids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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