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There is a new article by Lenore Skenazy. You may remember her when she made a big splash in the news when she let her 9-year-old ride the ...

2 paramedics in an EMS vehicle and 4 men on a fire truck respond every time someone is reported passed out in the park. Doesn't this se...

I am taking a week or two off (I really mean it this time). Here are a few parting thoughts: 1. Car seats. Why doesn't Goodwill take car...

One downtown parent and her infant son are dead, while another downtown parent mourns her murdered daughter. It truly is an unthinkable trag...

" I don't trust a man who makes toys in a land where children are forbidden . " The Enquirer reports that the Consumer Product...

See here for the story. I guess I would be tempted to try something like this when the kids first start going places on their own.

Downtown, we have had no interruption in our phone, natural gas or electric. The water pressure seems to have dropped slightly, and apparent...

...for kids over 2 years old, that is. I have long suspected this, only to discover that this research came out 3 years ago. See this artic...

A five year old study I just found says that you are more likely to be killed going about your daily grind in exurbia than you are in older...

A question from a reader: " ..I guess that spontaneous sense of community that happens in suburbia – or lack thereof – is one of the b...

In this entry, I will attempt to summarize the Kids in Cities Concept Paper, which can be read in full here . PDF here . First they establis...

I get an email almost everyday notifying me that a person convicted of sexual offense has moved into my neighborhood. Most of the offenders,...

  It is not just heresay. Here is a picture of crocs that recently got mangled in an escalator.

  Article in a UK newspaper "I was able to go out quite freely - I'd ride my bike around the estate, play with friends in the park ...

A BBC article laments that parents don't let their children out to play with freinds: Adrian Voce, from the Play England project, said ...

  Our local "play unit" is in terrible condition. The small plastic slide is punctured by a post, because some really big kids ju...

Smart City , an NPR type radio show out of Memphis, had a show today on Kids in Cities . The guests first stated that their study was limit...

It is futile to try to evade the issue of unsafe city streets by attempting to make some other features of a locality, say interior courtyar...