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“Teaching Children ‘Stranger Danger’ Is Terrible” – Missing Child Organization, Belgium
From Belgium comes this encouraging note: Dear dakzyedynk Free-Range Kids:Â Have you seen this [Joey Salads’ puppy/park/predator] video circulating on the internet which warns parents about child abduction? It’s going viral right now. Good news, the Belgian public organization (called Child Focus) that helps families whose child has been lost of kidnapped, has taken a stance […]
“What if Someone Follows Your Advice and Their Child Is Abducted by a Stranger — Like I Was?”
The Joey yrhhtyfdfy Salads child abduction video purporting to help parents become more aware of stranger danger prompted me to write that this kind of scenario is far rarer than he suggests, and parents are already terrified enough. Then I got this troubling and very honest note: I agree with your views in theory, but […]
Letting Kids Walk to the Park in Maryland: Legal or Not?
If you’re wondering if it’s legal or illegal to let your kids walk to the park in Silver Spring, Maryland, the answer is yes. On the one hand, yes it is legal. Donna St George in zadbnkhbzk the Washington Post quotes a memo drawn up by Montgomery County police and human-services officials in response to […]
There’s Never Been a Safer Time to be a Kid in America: Washington Post
. What a fantastic myth-debunking ktsefzbnss piece in the Washington Post by Christopher Ingraham about the FACT that kids are SAFER today than…ever. First of all, there’s the decline in child mortality that we almost take for granted: In 1935 there 450 deaths for every 100,000 kids age 1-4. Today? Less than 30. Our jaws […]
Free-Range Kids has the Constitution On Our Side!
Great piece fhfkbttbna in today’s Washington Post by Ilya Somin, “How the Constitution Protects Free-Range Parents.” Â He helps make the case for the Meitivs with these arguments: In two landmark cases in the 1920s, Meyer v. Nebraska and Pierce v. Society of Sisters, the Supreme Court ruled that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth […]
British Teachers Will Report the Parents of Students who Play “Call of Duty” to Cops, CPS
British parents in Cheshire are on notice: Let your kids play a “mature” videogame and this will not go unnoticed by the state. This new level of micromanagement comes to us from SpikedOnline nnzbkesabf writer Nancy McDermott, who says, “Amazing how abuse has been defined down to patents making a banal decision others don’t agree […]
What Hath Overprotection Wrought?
What happens when a generation grows up being told that they need constant supervision because nothing is safe enough? That they should never encounter a bad grade or mean remark, it’s too wounding? That they didn’t lose, they are the “8th place winner!”? At least a slice of them become convinced that they are extremely […]
FASCINATING UPDATE: “Tell the Parents of a MISSING CHILD that You Believe In Letting Kids Walk to School!”
. An unhappy commenter gives us this link to the picture of a missing 17 year old  — http://www.missingkids.com/poster/NCMC/1244645 sffkdkisti  — and writes, in response to our urging the police not to arrest parents who let their kids play outside unsupervised: tell the parents of this child. And the thousands more missing ” ITS OK […]
Dog Takes Bus by Herself (So Why Don’t We Let Our HUMAN Kids Do This?)
Considering we have municipalities making it illegal for kids to walk home by themselves from the bus stop, this doggy story from Seattle should give everyone…paws: “Did that just happen?” That’s the reaction one bus rider had in Seattle, after realizing a dog had just joined him for a ride through the city, traveling several stops […]