Dinosaur parents cared for their young for only a few months or a year before leaving them to roam alone, research from the ...

Before you entered the parent world, "free-range" was likely a term you only encountered when ordering chicken on date night. Dawn Friedman MSEd, a clinical counselor with Child Anxiety Support, used ...

Mental health — many say it's the crisis of our time, fueled by a cocktail of culprits from COVID-era isolation to social media. Some, however, speculate it starts much earlier and reining it in ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Free-range ...

Are you a neglectful parent if you leave your child alone in the car when you run into a grocery store? How about letting your little one walk to school alone? In many states, you can be prosecuted ...

Gail Cornwall said it was important to her to raise confident children. Mom Gail Cornwall allows her children to walk home from school without adult supervision. She lets her 9-year-old commute to ...

(SALT LAKE CITY) — A new law legalizing free-range parenting is now in effect in Utah. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed the bill on March 15, which was officially enforced Tuesday. The bill redefines the ...

Maryland parents were investigated after allowing their kids to walk home alone. — -- Rafi and Dvora Meitiv were walking home from the park recently in Silver Spring, Maryland, when they were ...

In 2018, Utah became the first state to pass what was then called a Free-Range Kids law. Since then, seven other states have followed suit, passing what are now known as "Reasonable Childhood ...

Free-range parenting has been a hot topic in recent months in the news and in online forums after two Maryland children were detained while walking home from a local park. As a parent of young ...

Parents in South Carolina can get in trouble with the law if they leave their kids in a parked car or let them play in a park by themselves. But a new bill in the state senate wants to change that, ...

Is there a "simple fix" to help quell kids' anxieties in an increasingly fast-paced and interconnected world? With the rise of the electronic world – social media, cable TV, 24-hour news – parents ...