by phdinparenting on January 22, 2010
This week an Ottawa school, D. Roy Kennedy Public School, has been in the news and featured on the Free Range Kids blog because a group of students started a petition to reverse a ban on playing with balls at recess in the winter. Students are allowed to run around and play, but they cannot [...]
by phdinparenting on November 20, 2009
The Christmas season usually creeps up on me. Slowly, but surely, over the course of the month of November I see more decorations, hear more Christmas songs, see more advertising and get invited to more seasonal events…just as the kids start to get into a panicked frenzy over the magic of it all and we [...]