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NYPD Offers Halloween Safety Tips

NYPD Offers Halloween Safety Tips

  The NYPD Community Affairs Bureau has some important Halloween safety tips for children, parents and guardians. Police want Halloween to be enjoyable, and above all safe. Halloween Safety   Halloween is one of the most enjoyable days of the […]

Stevan Lynn’s “Coach’s Corner,” Column on Fatherhood ; A New Partnership

Stevan Lynn’s “Coach’s Corner,” Column on Fatherhood ; A New Partnership

The Bronx Chronicle is proud to announce a new partnership with Stevan “Coach” Lynn and his series, “Coach’s Corner!” Many readers will recall that Stevan has been the charismatic and outgoing host of our previous video installments as well as […]

Lenore Skenazy, author, Free Range Kids

Free-Range Kids And Race

Free Range Kids And Race by Lenore Skenazy In an essay in today’s Washington Post, “Raising free-spirited black children in a world set on punishing them,” Stacia Brown sounds frustrated with the Free-Range Kids movement. She dearly wishes African-American kids could […]

by · July 26, 2015 · Family, Free Range Kids
EF Sports, Inc. & The Bharati Dance Academy presents MINIONS Day

EF Sports, Inc. & The Bharati Dance Academy presents MINIONS Day

EF Sports, Inc. and The Bharati Dance Academy in collaboration with the Office of Council Member James Vacca and Assembly Member Mark Gjonaj, will host a MINIONS Day at Bronx House on Thursday, July 2, 2015. The youth and community […]

Lenore Skenazy, author, Free Range Kids

Free Range Kids: Etan Patz and The Legacy of Fear

The Etan Patz Case and “Take Our Children to the Park…And Let Them Walk Home By Themselves” Day [This week], the Etan Patz trial came to a a close. Etan was the 6-year-old boy who disappeared on his way to […]

No more empty parks! Let’s bring kids back outside!

Free-Range Kids: Take Our Children To The Park Day, May 9

Take Our Children to the Park…And Let Them Walk Home by Themselves Day: SAT, MAY 9   For the past five years Free-Range Kids has been sponsoring Take Our Children to the Park…and Leave Them There Day. This year, in […]

by · April 26, 2015 · Family, Free Range Kids
Free Range Kids: You Know What’s REALLY Dangerous for Kids?

Free Range Kids: You Know What’s REALLY Dangerous for Kids?

“That’s dangerous!”  . Most  of us parents have had that shouted at us at some point — often when we’re letting our kids do something that is, statistically, not very dangerous at all, like letting a 3 year old nap […]

by · March 22, 2015 · Family, Free Range Kids
Lenore Skenazy: We are using too broad a definition of sex offender.

Free Range Kids: Is a 21 yr-old With a 15 yr-old Girlfriend a “Sex Offender” for the Next 25 Years?

If you think of all kids under the age of 18 as the same, you get crazy laws like no child under 18 can be left unsupervised. Wacky. You also get sex offender labels that make no sense. In Ohio, […]

by · March 15, 2015 · Crime, Family
Why call the cops when you could lend a hand?

Free Range Kids: Would You Call 911 on a Parent?

Shouldn’t We Trust Parents To Make The Right Decision Post by contributor, Lenore Skenazy This excellent essay by Tracy Cutchlow in The Washington Post talks about how can we create community, trust and kindness — not to mention some kiddie self-reliance — instead […]

by · March 9, 2015 · Crime, Family
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FORUM, 3/18

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FORUM, 3/18

Love Don’t Hurt On March 18, The Bronx Health Reach will present a Domestic Violence Forum at the Urban Health Plan’s Simpson Pavilion located at 1054 Simpson Street in the Bronx. The event’s poster is emblazoned with the slogan, “Love Don’t […]

by · March 4, 2015 · Family, Health & Nutrition, Women
Assemblyman Marcos A. Crespo Hosts  A Teen Dating Violence Awareness Workshop

Assemblyman Marcos A. Crespo Hosts A Teen Dating Violence Awareness Workshop

Assemblyman Crespo Joins W.E.S.D.A and Local Teens To Raise Awareness Of Teen Dating Violence   Last Friday, Assemblyman Marcos A. Crespo joins W.E.S.D.A. for a one-day workshop to empower young women and bring awareness of healthy and unhealthy relationships as […]

Coach’s Corner – “Deeds not Words”

Coach’s Corner – “Deeds not Words”

“Deeds not Words” The artful skills associated with the concept of “responsible fatherhood” cannot be acquired by reading a book or an article in a trendy magazine. It cannot be assimilated by attending a fatherhood meeting baring your problems to […]

by · February 17, 2015 · Bulletin Board, Community Affairs, Family

LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION: YEAR OF THE GOAT

Come to The Bronx Museum this Saturday, February 21, 2:00pm to 4:00pm, to celebrate the Lunar New Year — Year of the Goat.  Bronxites and others are invited to celebrate this popular Chinese holiday with costumed folk dances, authentic music, […]

Free Range Kids – Worst Super Bowl Ad? #Nationwide

Free Range Kids – Worst Super Bowl Ad? #Nationwide

Post by Contributor Lenore Skenazy Yo, Nationwide. That ad you just ran on the Super Bowl? What is it proposing? Parents of dead children just weren’t careful enough? Way to twist the knife! One of my favorite comments to this site […]

by · February 2, 2015 · Bulletin Board, Editorials, Family
Coach’s Corner – “Responsible Fatherhood”

Coach’s Corner – “Responsible Fatherhood”

Stevan “Coach”  Lynn, who many of you may know as a Bronx Chronicle friend and oft host of our video series, will now be a regular contributor to The Bronx Chronicle.   “Responsible Fatherhood” A phrase that exudes passionate feelings […]

by · February 2, 2015 · Bulletin Board, Editorials, Family