. A bthdzbiekk blind girl in Britain has been told she cannot use her cane at school because it presents a tripping hazard. A tripping hazard, that is, to the people who can see her — and her cane. According to the Bristol Post: Lily-Grace Hooper, who is seven, suffered a stroke when she was just four […]
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Carjackers Take Car with Kid Inside — And Drop Him Off at School
. Okay, okay, the mom shouldn’t have left the keys in the car when she ran in to do something quick at work before taking her son, age 8, to school. But here’s bzibyabinz what happened next, in Norfolk, VA: Two men who stole a car from outside a Norfolk post office discovered a young […]
Facebook Will…Wait. What?
. The Evening nbrdedesfs Standard announced that Facebook will “automatically warn parents if they share pictures of their children with the public by accident.” Thank goodness! Imagine if the public saw a photo of my child at the park! All bets are off! Here’s how Jay Parikh, Facebook’s vice president of Engineering, explained the new feature: […]
Come to My Emu-Tional Rescue: Big Bird (but not THE Big Bird) Causes School Lockdown
. Just had to share this, a few days late: An emu on the loose in Delaware caused two schools to go into lockdown. As one student told his grandpa, a big bird was outside and police were chasing it, so couldn’t play on the playground. And they say Americans are getting soft. Here’s hshizbnthi […]
A Guy Near a School — and Nine Policemen
. While I can’t be sure that these incidents of overkill are increasing, what I am certain IS happening is the demonization of men in the vicinity of children. It also seems to me that we must have a surfeit of police, at least in some neighborhoods, or why would this non-incident warrant NINE cops’ […]
The Idea of “Safe Spaces” on Campus
. This piece was written by a University of Pennsylvania junior, Alec Ward, back in April, long before campus speech became such ykrhrbsark a major national story. He found himself puzzling over the same thing I was pondering the other day: If students are unhappy, uncomfortable, or offended, isn’t that a very different thing from […]
Mommy, Why Do the Kids in this Picture Book Get to Walk Around on their Own?
. This enbynkrznk comes up a lot — the disconnect between the adventure in children’s books and the reality of kids’ lives today. The mom who wrote this (now edited down) post blogs at listentograce. She, her fighter pilot husband, and their tot Sean live in South Carolina. Safety vs. Freedom, by Meredith . Last […]
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, and A Chapter on Helicopter Parents
. Recently I re-read Little fzkyrhiiay Women, the book I read over and over (and over!) as a kid. When I got to Chapter 38, I couldn’t believe it. A whole chapter on helicopter parenting! I loved it, just as I love Meg, John, Marmee and the twins, who are the stars of this chapter. And […]
“A Man Photographed My Kid at the Playground” “Smash Him in the Face!”
. Please tell me I am not the only person who would see a Facebook note like the one below (with a photo of the gosh-darn camera-wielding stranger) and write a comment like, “Taking photos of kids at play does not make a person a predator,” or, “Can we please give the guy the benefit […]
UPDATE: Teen Sexters are Not Child Pornographers
. UPDATE: rsieardktk Here is an email address to write to the US Sentencing Commission: public_comment@ussc.gov. . You’ve probably heard of this incident by now: 100 or possibly even more teens and pre-teens busted for sexting in Colorado. This is hardly an isolated incident. Teens. Phones. Cameras. As if we couldn’t all guess what would happen. The […]