If the expectation is for moms to breastfeed exclusively, make their own baby food and always be playing with, reading to, or watching their kids, something is wrong. Not with those activities, with the expectation. Discuss! (Here, at Let Grow.) . . Photo from Unsplash by Oleg Sergeichik@kpebedko_o.
Katharina Nuss, visited by child protective services for trusting her kids out of her line of sight for 3 minutes in their own neighborhood, has vowed to change the laws that make this a parenting offense. Here’s her story.
The idea of school shootings seems to have unhinged a Florida sheriff who put an entire high school on “Code Red” — barricade the doors, hide in the closets — without mentioning it was a drill. We declare that child abuse. Read about it here.
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School kids forbidden to touch snow, college students forbidden to hike in the woods, a mom investigated for letting her 8-year-old walk the dog — check out the Top 10 Worsts of 2018 — and the one SHINING LIGHT over at Let Grow! (While they can’t roam outside, Penn State college students in the “Outing […]
A Florida company has started selling electronic ankle monitors to the parents of teens. The monitors cannot be removed. “Hardened criminals who try to cut it off have ended up in the ER,” brags marketer. Somehow this is legal. Is it moral? Is it ever a good idea? Join the discussion at Let Grow.
Tim Bedley teaches 5th grade and has for a long time. But now he teaches it differently, for reasons he explains over at Let Grow. Come join the discussion!
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Check out the video over at Let Grow of a school that is just so fantastic, it makes you sit down and wonder: Are the rest of us doing it all wrong?
If George Carlin came back as a cop in Bangor Maine… this is what he’d write. Best Police Dept. Facebook post EVER.
