September 2009

What We’re Reading Wednesday: September 30th

by Trisha

It’s What We’re Reading Wednesday again, and each of our selections this week have a wonderful connection to our Free-Range Kids Week theme. I’m going to steal the microphone for a moment to introduce you to a new book from Simple Kids’ newest sponsor – Shankman and O’Neil children’s books. Just over a week ago, [...]

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character

5 Positive Character Traits Encouraged by Free-Range Parenting

by Megan

photo by woodleywonderworks I hope yesterday’s conversation inspired those who haven’t yet read Free-Range Kids to find a way to get your hands on a copy. The book speaks to something far beyond allowing our children to walk down the mailbox by themselves. In fact, the reason I chose this book as our first book [...]

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parenting

Free Range Kids Week: Recalling the Freedom We Had

by Megan

photo by chefranden Welcome to Free Range Kids Week at Simple Kids! I am so excited about the upcoming book talk that will take place on Thursday. This is such a diverse, intelligent, and helpful community – I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Lenore Skenazy’s Free-Range Kids. The subtitle of this book is [...]

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showcase

September 25th: SK Showcase and Weekend Links

by Megan

I’m curious to hear if any of you in the SK community participated in Turnoff Week. I can’t say we completely turned the screens in our home off this week, but we did cut way, way back on TV and computer time. Watching my girls spend more time at the table coloring and creating and [...]

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books and music

Preparing for Our Free-Range Kids Book Talk

by Megan

On October 1st, Simple Kids will host our first ever community-wide book talk. I’ve chosen Lenore Skenazy’s Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry for our first book discussion. Each day next week, I’ll be sharing posts inspired by the “free-range” philosophy, and on Thursday we’ll come together [...]

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Simple Kids is about celebrating the freedom of childhood. Our writers come from a variety of backgrounds and experience, but we have one common goal: we love our children. We try to complicate parenting, but it doesn't have to be hard. Childhood can be simple. We celebrate that.