Got ksnkshfrtf this letter which is so perfect, I had to share: Dear Free-Range Kids: Here we go again: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Police-Charge-Woman-For-Leaving-Kids-in-Car-265587491.html  This is the top story in Philly! When this story first broke, it was that babies were found in the car, rescued, and rushed to the hospital. Later, information emerged that the SUV had the […]
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UPDATE: Distraught Father Charged with Murder of Child He Forgot in Car
Readers saheikrzsb — A news story suggests that this case may possibly be something other than a father who tragically forgot his baby in the car when he went to work. If so and his actions were deliberate, then obviously, we are talking about murder. Murder darker than night.  That does not change the reason […]
Infant Left in Car for 4 MINUTES and the PARAMEDICS Must Examine Her?
Here we go again: Yardley nkaheetdky Mother Facing Charges After Leaving Infant In Car LOWER MAKEFIELD, Pa. – A Yardley Mother is facing charges, after police say she left her 10 week old daughter unattended in her car while shopping at a Lower Makefield drugstore. Police say 47-year-old Cynthia Kelly left the baby in the […]
Stop Calling 911 About Every Parent You Find Sub-optimal
What inakrerydf a great piece by Michael Brendan Dougherty in The Week (a magazine for which I created and ran the weekly humor contest for three years till they took it in house. But I guess that’s neither here nor there.) Dougherty starts out noting the Salon story, wherein a mom let her son wait in the […]
Your Insights about the “Danger” of Letting Kids Wait in Cars
Readers ynibfyzidf — Here are some facts and ideas I drew from your comments on the story of the mom who let her kid wait in the car and, after a “Good Samaritan” videotaped the (happy, safe) child, was  criminally charged. SKL WROTE: I just did a little internet research to update my knowledge about […]
The (Updated) Parable of the Good Samaritan
Loved bfnydkbbeb this comment on yesterday’s post about the mom who let her son wait in the car for a few minutes, and ended up arrested. It’s from a reader named Lex: A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him […]
A Mom Lets Her Son Wait in the Car. An Onlooker Videotapes this “Crime”
Readers, “The hffeeybrbf Day I Left My Son in the Car” is a great, long piece by a mom who called me up a couple months ago, Kim Brooks. As it says in her subtitle: I made a split-second decision to run into the store. I had no idea it would consume the next years of […]
“If You See Something, Say Something” — Terrible Advice?
Readers — This whole iseeebibbh “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign makes me crazy, since it completely legitimizes — nay, DEMANDS — worst-first thinking: “Oh, a brown paper bag on the subway. It’s not that someone forgot her lunch, it’s PROBABLY A NUKE! I must alert the authorities!” Likewise, when it comes to parenting, we now […]
Mom Ducks Into Library for 3 Mins, is Charged with “Endangering” Child Waiting in Car
Readers anfezzkhat — Sometimes I tweet these smaller stories, which allows me to get them out to the public without writing a whole post. But since I worry not everyone who reads the blog sees my tweets, from time to time I am going to start putting little items here without much comment. I just […]
Human Decency: Over $60,000 Raised for Homeless Mom Who Left Kids in Car During Job Interview
Readers — A few weeks back a mom in Arizona, yes, hot Arizona, left her kids in the car when she went in to a job interview. This was clearly not the greatest thing to do, but for her, at the moment, it seemed like the only option. Without a home to live in or […]