I'll be the first to admit that I could be classified as a free range parent. When my kids were toddlers I went with their schedule of what they wanted to do. If they brought me a book, I read it. If they brought me crayons, we colored. If they brought me 3 knives out of the kitchen to juggle, we had a talk about why that was not a good idea. I didn't force them to sit and learn their abc's on flash cards, we just sang them on the way to Grandma's house.

There is a movement in America today that isn't allowing kids to be kids. Some how our society has gotten it engraved into our brains that kids need to be learning something every second of every day from the minute that they are born. We have taken their care free days of childhood and replaced them with structure, activities, and a small amount of "free play" that parents schedule in between swim class and piano lessons. Parents have started telling their children when it's okay to be a kid.

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