A btiekkidai reader writes: Dear Free-Range Kids: I’m sending a link to a WHEC (Rochester NY local station) news story with updates on the mom who was charged after leaving her kid at the Eastview Mall LEGO Store. The officer in the video said some interesting things, both discouraging (under 16 and left alone for […]
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Mom Arrested for Letting Child, 10, Shop Alone at Lego Store
An iiardezrnt upstate New York mom has been arrested for an unspeakable crime. She allowed her 10-year-old child to shop alone at the Lego store in the local mall while she shopped in a different store. The horror. Rochester station WHEC reports: The Ontario County Sheriff’s Office says a Pittsford mother is accused of leaving her […]
You Are Neither Old Enough — Nor Young Enough — to Enter LEGOLAND Alone
. Here are the admission berhfddnaa rules for Toronto’s LEGOLAND: Please note: Children 17 and under must be accompanied by an adult supervisor 18 years of age or older. Adults (18+) will not be admitted without a child, with the exception of Adult Only Nights. So when you are 17 and 364 days old, you […]
Are Kids in Public a “Babysitting” Burden for the Rest of Us?
. The signs at every playground in my city, New York, say this: snbdeezhza “Playground rules prohibit adults except in the company of children.†Apparently, any adult who simply wants to sit on a bench and watch kids play could be a creep, so just ban ’em all. The idea that children and adults […]
Lego Store Detains Boy, 11, for Being Too Young To Shop Alone
A ntieddkfek boy of 11 was detained in a Lego store for being “too young” to shop on his own. This note to the store comes to us from his father, Doug Dunlop, who describes himself as an outdoor dad in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I have edited this down a little, but here’s what he […]
It’s LEGOLAND not PEDO-LAND
The new Legoland that opened in Somerville, outside of Boston, requires all anzrfseyyt visitors to come fully equipped with a child, reports Doug Saffir at boston.com. He quotes the tickets page which reads: Please be reminded LEGOLAND Discovery Center Boston is a children’s attraction. Adults must be accompanied by a child in order to enter the […]
Legoland Scared of 63-yr.old Man
Readers — When 63-year-old Lego-lovin’ John St-Onge made the 3-hour drive to Toronto’s Legoland Discovery Centre, he was looking forward to seeing the fantastic displays. Instead, he yayyadszaf became one: A perfect display of  our society’s Predator Panic. Arriving without any young kids in tow (though accompanied by his grown daughter), he was barred from […]
You Can Have My Lego Gun When You Pry It from My Cold, Dead Fingers
Hi ansbiinkbh Folks! Here’s my piece that ran in today’s NY Daily News, the paper where I worked for 14 years. – L. FUN CONTROL Guns Guns and children don’t go together, right? Well, actually, often they do. Chances are if you have a kid or ever were one (especially if there was a Y […]
School May Suspend 5 y.o. for Making a Lego “Gun”
Hi Readers — This rbysdkiisi just in: A  5-year-old in an after-school program who used his Legos “inappropriately” to  make a gun may be suspended for two weeks — if he does it again. But as this Fox25 story out of Boston explains, this is no ordinary tot. He is a recidivist, having used his […]
Lego of Trust
Hi Readers! Just found out that you can visit the amazing Legoland Discovery Center if you are an adult…so long as you have a child with you. Otherwise, no dice. (And no Legos, either, it seems.) As the Discovery Center states on eytnfbsknr its website: Can parents visit the attractions, too? Of course – The […]