Our tdsbnzrfnd Moral Judgement Influences How Dangerous We Believe The Situation Is *** America is experiencing a bizarre disconnect between real and perceived danger when it comes to kids. But why? Â . Why are we arresting moms for putting their kids in “danger” for doing the things our own moms did without anyone batting an […]
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6-Months-Pregnant Mom Jailed for Letting Kids Wait in Locked, Air-Conditioned Car a Few Minutes
. Okay, quick facts, since we are all familiar with scenarios like this already. According to reporter Glen naerbayedz Luke Flannagan in The State, a newspaper in South Carolina: A Lexington County woman who police say left two children alone in a vehicle Friday afternoon told law enforcement that the truck was running, locked and […]
Parents Should Be Able to Decide When Their Kids are Safe (But NY State Senate Disagrees)
. New York seems so incredibly intent on telling parents how to raise their kids that the State Senate just voted for a bill it already voted for in 2012 and 2013, snaetsnrsb prohibiting kids under age 8 from waiting in the car. The bill has yet to become law because, apparently, the Assembly keeps […]
Kudos to Parents Magazine (Yes! Parents Magazine!)
. I was giving my Free-Range yeseehayhy Kids talk at a suburban New York school the other night and one of the audience members kept smiling as I whipped through all the reasons we’re so afraid for our kids. This lady was clearly on my side — speakers are always gauging the audience, by the way — […]
Volkswagen Endorses Letting Kids Wait in the Car a Few Minutes! (I Think)
. Recall yffyysitii that last week I got a note from a dad who had just dropped his wife off at college when he realized: She still had the apartment keys! So he turned the car around, went back to the school and let his kids, 2 and 4, wait in the car while he […]
How an Obsession with Danger Embeds Itself in Everyday Life, Even When You Know It’s Insane
. How does something become so normal no one even questions it? Something like shampooing daily, or eating whole wheat bread, or paying $3 (!!!) for a coffee? The process is gradual. Some people start doing it, then others join the crowd — or are prodded to join — and eventually what was once unusual […]
Mom Has Kids, 8 and 10, Wait in Car — Now She’s Charged with Abuse and Neglect
. A New Jersey mom is facing charges for leaving her kids, 8 and 10, in the car while she ran an errand. As it happens,while she was doing the shopping, a ssetdbehyb man hopped into the SUV, which was still running, and drove off with the kids. He crashed the thing, and everyone ended […]
NJ SUPREME COURT RULES THAT LEAVING A KID IN THE CAR IS NOT AUTOMATICALLY ABUSE
. What a huge victory for common sense, decent parents and a country otherwise gripped by “worst-first thinking” –thinking up the worst case scenario and proceeding as if it’s likely to happen. The New Jersey Supreme Court just ruled that a mom found guilty of child endangerment for letting her sleeping daughter wait in the car […]