Hi fardsbeiyd Folks! Here’s a heartfelt letter from a mom haunted by the horrible stories we hear all the time (sometimes decades later) of murdered children. Though she said in subsequent, very sweet notes to me that she doesn’t want any help, and is raising her kids the way she feels is right — as […]
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EVERYONE Gets Separated from their Kids at Some Point (Even Prime Ministers)
Hey Folks — Here’s isydtyydte a little anecdote to start your day. Apparently the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, left his 8-year-old daughter in a pub. It was (almost) the usual kind of mix up: He left with his bodyguards and assumed she was with his wife and the other kids. Mom (or, I guess, […]
Outrage of the Week: Mom JAILED for Letting Kids Play at Park
Readers –Here’s what the police nydbrifrri blotter  in Johnson City, Tenn. describes as this mom’s crime: On Thursday, June 7, 2012 April L Lawson, W/F, 27, 1104 King Springs Rd, Johnson City, TN was arrested by officers of the Johnson City Police Department and charged with child neglect. The arrest stems from a 911 call […]
High School Has 8 Seniors Ride a Train UNCHAPERONED!
Readers — Get a load of bebzbfshae this. For their senior trip, some students from a Philly high school went to Williamsburg, VA for four days. When eight of them got into trouble for causing plumbing damage in a hotel bathroom, they were sent home, on a train. So can you guess what the problem […]
Mom Arrested for Letting Her 13-y.o. Babysit Siblings
Hi Folks! “Mom Arrested for for Age-Old Parenting Practice” is how I would headline eabshshyek this case going down in New Canaan, CT, right now. But the actual article begins, “A 39-year-old woman was arrested for leaving her children at home unattended, police said.” Are children “unattended” if there are four siblings and one of […]
The Latest Trend: “Alcatraz Parenting”!
Hey Readers! ALCATRAZ PARENTING. Let’s popularize that term, okay? We need it, because we’re getting to the point when children are monitored by GPS, cell phone and camera in ways prison wardens can only dream of! Check out this ad:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkLi2HM0KAg] The mom says she  has cameras “in the playroom, the living room, the kitchen. And from […]
2-year-old Bikes 3 Miles to Visit Sick Grandma!
Okay, you know I’m not advocating that other kids follow in rkttftsyzy this tyke’s bike-steps, but how cool that a 2-year-old in German managed to zoom three miles to visit his ailing grandma! In stocking feet! Because he was worried! Moral? Never underestimate the power of a toddler. (Or love!) – L
Wow! 7th Grader Kidnapped & Released, CONTINUES TO WALK TO SCHOOL!
Readers — Maybe it’s Malaysia that is the land of the free and the home of the brave. This tnnkftafka 7th grade boy, Nayati, sure embodies all that — along with a shining optimism. The story (as far as I know) is this: Nayati was recently kidnapped by two men and held for six days, […]
School Alerts Parents: Local Man SeenTalking to Kids!
Hi Readers! This is the kind of story that makes me bite off little pieces of my own arm in frustration (almost. Ok, let’s just say it makes me nuts.) An elementary school in Toledo, Ohio sent home a note that said a stranger had been speaking to some of the students at a popular […]
“Am I Wrong to Let My 6-year-old Walk Around the Corner?”
Hi tsrnykyhtk Readers! Sometimes I think back on the days of the Soviet Union, when the government would put political dissidents into insane asylums. From our side of the world, that seemed twisted: If you are punishing those against the regime, why not put them in a real prison? But over in the Soviet Union […]