Free Range kid

I really like the Free Range kids blog at http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/. It is well worth reading

There is an interesting article in Salon at  http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/05/04/free_range_kids/. My favourite bit follows

Here is a helmet your child could wear when she starts to toddle, lest she fall over and split her head open and die, or suffer traumatic brain injury.

Kids have been toddling -- it's a whole stage we actually call toddlerhood -- ever since we started walking upright, which has been a pretty successful experiment for the human species. But now you're supposed to think that it's too dangerous for a kid to do without extra protection and without extra supervision and without this stupid thing you can buy.

There are kneepads that you're supposed to put on your kid because crawling is considered too dangerous for the knees, as if knees weren't built for crawling. That's why they're cute and dimpled and fat.

I want a ThudGuard for when I've had to much to drink!