You’ll btdirinzfa recall that on Saturday, the Cheung family in Valley Stream, Long Island, let their 4-year-old son stay sleeping in the car while they went into a Home Depot to get some Christmas lights. They came out about 20 minutes later to find firefighters had smashed a window to extricate the boy, as if […]
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“Firefighters Smashed My Window to Pull My Napping Son Out of the Parked Car, as If It Was an Emergency”
fkfsikbkit A mom, dad and preschooler went to Home Depot in Valley Stream, Long Island, on Saturday to get some Christmas lights. The child ended up in the hospital and the dad ended up in jail. Here’s what happened. . When the family got to the store, their 4-year-old had fallen asleep. As the dad […]
One Day, TWO Letters from Dads Visited by Cops for Letting Their Kids Wait Safely in the Car
From my mailbox on Tuesday, Letter #1: My sdzssrazfh 7 seven year old son has demonstrated to me that he can lock and unlock the car by car by himself from inside, initiate conversations, and look before walking across streets. I did not see anything wrong with leaving him in the car while I go […]
Spain to Parents: Let Your 6-Year-Olds Walk to School!
Kids age 6 are old enough to walk themselves to school, Spanish officials are telling parents. A seven-community experiment begun there in 2010 has been hailed as a success by researchers who say that allowing first graders to walk without adult supervision “builds their self-confidence.” According to this htarzebthz piece in The Washington Post by […]
More About Playborhood and Risk, From Tim Gill
. The New anrhtzzene York Times article on Playborhood, the open-to-all playground that Silicon Valley entrepreneur Mike Lanza organized on his front and back lawns, continues to elicit a ton of comments and commentary. Here’s what Lanza wrote on his own Facebook page. And here’s a post by Tim Gill, the British visionary who blogs […]
What Becomes of a Helicoptered Kid?
Helicopter parents get a lot of blame and I don’t want to add to it. I want to end it. For the most part, parents helicopter because society DEMANDS it. There are schools that won’t let kids walk home on their own, and cops who chide parents who let their kids play outside. There are companies […]
A Mom Lets Her 6-Year-Old Walk Part-Way to School and Up Comes a Cop (A Surprising Tale)
I get emails on a weekly basis from moms chided by onlookers for letting their kids do anything kibnfkzdts by themselves: walk to the corner store, play in the backyard (editing that one now!), climb up the jungle gym without a parent underneath, arms widespread, like a fireman ready to catch a jumper. So this […]
Walking to School is Less Dangerous than NOT Walking
The yhyhtbakks next time you are having issues with your school (or neighbors, or ex) about letting your child walk home, please print this out. Point by point it explains how walking is not just healthy and fun, it’s actually safer than insisting children NOT walk. This comes to us from Michael Lewyn, an associate professor […]
School Won’t Let My Kids Walk Home 2 Quiet Blocks
Have rbrsrkkeab any of you come up with a workable solution to schools that won’t let parents decide how their kids get home? This is something we could all use — especially this mom: Dear Free-Range Kids: I am hoping that you might have some resources and/or know of people to point me to who […]
Viral Video: Parents Left Their Baby in a Diner Booth While They Grabbed Their Food!
. Shocking as it sounds, two parents recently entered a restaurant, placed their baby in his carrier in a booth, and proceeded to get their food from the buffet. How dare they? That’s what another patron thought, whipping out his weapon of choice, a cell phone. Here’s the video: And yrsdyszkff so, reports She Knows: […]