Aiden punched Noah because Noah wouldn’t let him on the slide! Ooh! Now what? Well, if this took place in Missouri, at recess, Aiden could be heading to jail. In an era when we have finally come to realize that zero tolerance policies and the kyetrdysia school-to-prison pipeline are permanently damaging kids by saddling them with […]
Archive | 2017
“How I Got on the Sex Offender List” — By a Mom of Three
Sometimes aysyffehbd when I post about the Sex Offender Registry, I get comments like, “Those scum don’t deserve to EVER live a normal life!” This note below is to remind us that a study of 17,000 people on the registry by the The Georgia Sex Offender Registration Review Board found that about 5% were “clearly […]
Why Is Every Rainy Day “The Storm of the Century” Now?
These zsbyhkbrtn musings come from a reader who blogs at southgeek and describes herself as “someone who sees and greatly fears that our personal freedoms and independence are being sold down the river in exchange for imaginary security. And when it comes to security of children, well, all bets are off.” Â . Agreed. But today […]
Twin, 2, Saves Brother After Dresser Falls On Him
Many of you sent in this hyhhnsinhk dramatic story of a dresser falling on a Utah 2-year-old and his twin brother rescuing him from underneath it. It sickens me the way KSL TV news showed the worst part of the video three times in two minutes, but here you have it: . As MSN reports: […]
When A Legitimate Movement Goes Overboard
Here’s Harvard’s Steven hrezszshnr Pinker musing on what happens when a legitimate movement — Â the movement to improve child safety, for instance, or to awaken sensitivity to minorities — achieves its main goals, but insists on acting as if today’s dangers and insults are on par with those of the past. . His point about […]