It looks obvious

A while ago I posted about a mother that allow her young child to ride the NY subway alone. I read her op-ed with a mix of admiration and hesitation. While I do agree with the main premise that we underestimate the abilities of our children and overestimate the risks, I am not sure where the line is. Yes we tend to be over protective and yes we are crippling our children, but am I ready to send my child alone on the NY subway? I’m not so sure.

If this questions are of interest to you the Lenore Skenazy, who authored the Op-Ed column, continuing the discussion on a blog name, not surprisingly, Free Range Kids, and It is a fascinating discussion.

Flickr, my favorite online picture service, added the ability to upload short video clips. From what I understand the clips will be limited to 90 seconds but the file quality will be higher than similar services. I decided to “test” the new service with a short clip of the girls, here are the results:

The girls have a wonderful babysitter. Today the baked together an apple pie:

More picture can be found here.

It was wonderful to woken up today to the sound of "happy fathers day" wishes and presents made by my daughters. Just that you know

Tags: Fathers Day

I should have posted these long ago.

More photos can be found here.

More Pictures can be found here.

Mosif from Israel commented in this Israeli blog about the storm headed toward NY. These picture are for him.

Usualy the view from the Window is of the hudson Bay and of the statue of Liberty, not today.

And before you think it is fun, this is how you need to dress your child when being forced to go play in the snow…

More Picture, as usaul, can be found here .

and one of Ronie too