Tag: parenting

• Parenting Risk

  And while we are talking about “parenting risks” (from my articles Failure as an Option and Free Range Parenting) let me tell you a little story about letting your child take a BIG risk that, in hindsight, makes my parents my heroes. When I graduated from college I had a smooth and easy path laid…

  Mindy Carlson

  March 12, 2015

  Kids, Tween Chronicals

  failure is always an option, free range parenting, parenting, parenting risks

• 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

• 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