Mindy Carlson

How I Ruined H’s Backpack

I mentioned on Facebook last week that I ruined H’s backpack as we were leaving the hotel in Sedrun. Well, here’s the whole story. We always have the boys bring their backpacks along on trips. They are in charge of picking out what they want to bring and also in charge of carrying it and…

Mindy Carlson

January 22, 2015

Kids, The Swiss Family Carlson

Backpack destroyed, Disentis, funny parenting stories, parenting, Sedrun, Swiss Family CarlsonBear

The Swiss Family Carlson Visits Disentis-Sedrun!

Disentis and its little sister, Sedrun, are little skiing towns in the southeast portion of Switzerland past Lucerne by about 30 minutes and in the Canton of Graubunden. (The leadership that led to the formation of the canton was called The Grey League. It sounds like a comic book hero team and, therefore, makes this…

Mindy Carlson

January 19, 2015

The Swiss Family Carlson

Curling, Disentis, Mountain pictures, Open-air Curling, Sedrun, Swiss Family Carlson, Swiss Skiing, Switzerland

Free Range Parenting

I’ve had three friends forward me a story that appeared in The Washington Post on January 14, 2015, asking me to comment on it. It’s a story about how two parents in Montgomery County are under investigation for letting their children go out by themselves. Specifically, they are being investigated by CPS for neglect because…

Mindy Carlson

January 16, 2015

Homemaking, Kids

free range parenting, free-range, Gen-X parenting, latch key, parenting, parents investigated for neglect for letting children walk home alone