Another Halloween link

[ritaxis]

Halloween is the safest holiday of the year, but it is the day that we test-drive new parental phobias.
I just discovered this blog via Atrios's link for a discussion of age limits for independent train travel. Lenore Skenazy has apparently written a book about how we should let our kids run around a lot more, and now she has a blog about it. It looks pretty good, though I disagree on some minor details (for example, I think family trick-or-treating is just ducky, though I agree that it is ridiculous not to let your kids go by themselves till they are thirteen).

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What's really weird is thagt my mother was "over-protective" for her time and I was almost neglectful for my time, and yet my children had less freedom of movement than I did.

And my son-in-law is aghast at how freely Emma moved through the neighborhood.