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I want YOU...to be as nice as the lady in this story was.

I Ran into the Store and Came Out to Find a Lady at My Car. Here’s Why:

March 15, 2017

A irdfzzikyb surprise! Dear Free-Range Kids:Â Ran across this “article” on Facebook:Â https://www.romper.com/p/15-things-parents-did-in-the-90s-that-no-parent-would-do-today-9192?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=pro&utm_campaign=fbpro&sr_source=lift_facebook I grew up in the ’90s in suburbia MI and remember this stuff. Now as a mother of an infant, I wish parenting wasn’t such a monumental, risk adverse task. Just last week I left my (overtired, recently screaming, just picked up from daycare) […]

Four times more children die from rollovers and backovers than they do waiting in the car. (Source: KidsandCars.org )

My Son Nearly Died Because I Took Him OUT of the Car

February 8, 2017

Here’s a handy-dandy post to whip out when someone screams at you for letting your kids wait in the car during an errand. (Did you know Free-Range Kids is a free app? That’s how you can whip this out): Last yerydterhd week, my preschooler came literally within an inch of his death in a shopping […]

Sir, I love your children more than you do.

One Day, TWO Letters from Dads Visited by Cops for Letting Their Kids Wait Safely in the Car

November 23, 2016

From my mailbox on Tuesday, Letter #1: My sdzssrazfh 7 seven year old son has demonstrated to me that he can lock and unlock the car by car by himself from inside, initiate conversations, and look before walking across streets. I did not see anything wrong with leaving him in the car while I go […]

“She Was Walking to her Car in the Parking Lot When the Unthinkable Happened”

November 14, 2016

. A couple of you have sent me this ad that is making the rounds: It dhiehtebfa was just a normal day at the mall for Jennifer Dellert… until everything went horribly wrong. Sigh. Â She had just left the mall carrying her shopping bags, and was walking to her car when the unthinkable happened. […]

I wish we could always keep our children safe. But laws micromanaging parents don't do that.

If Only She’d Let Her Child Wait in the Car Unsupervised

August 3, 2016

. Here’s a piece of mine ran on the newish site Heat fybesdrrsz Street. I wanted to share it with you too — with an update: Whenever I suggest that it should be up to the parents to decide if it makes sense to take a child out of the car while they run a […]

MUST READ! “The Day I Caved Into Peer Pressure And Dragged My Kids Out of the Car for a Very Short Errand”

June 8, 2016

. From my mailbox, two neatly twinned items. First, a Facebook rant sent in by a mom disgusted by it: Dear eiehdbysyn “Nana” – It was selfish to leave your Grandchildren strapped in their car seats in the sun today as you bought your Subway. I was in Subway with you and continued to 7 […]

You left your child to me? Just because you had to run in to get dinner?

In Which My Friend Lets Her 3 Kids Wait in the Car and Along Comes the FBI

April 26, 2016

. My eszezdedia friend Julie Gunlock lives just outside of DC. She’s a great mom AND the author of a book I love, From Cupcakes to Chemicals: How the Culture of Alarmism Makes Us Afraid of Everything and How to Fight Back. Â . Well, just recently she found herself fighting back a particularly stubborn misconception. […]

NEWS FLASH: A baby does not automatically die when a parent leaves the car for a brief errand on a mild day. Can we please get over this weird superstition?

Clearly, A Ranting, Videotaping Stranger Cares More About this Woman’s Own Baby Than She Does

February 25, 2016

. If only there was a law preventing parents from making rational decisions about how to raise their beloved kids! That seems to be the consensus, at least about iezzzshtre this particular case, as presented by this particular station: KHQ Spokane reported that a man noticed a baby in a car in a Target parking […]

That'll teach you ladies to run an errand before your kids are 18!

HARSHER Penalties for Letting Kids Wait in Cars?

January 8, 2016

. Remember: Any law drawn up in haste on the heels of a tragedy, and/or following a breathless news report, and/or named for a child, and/or with the word “Angel” in its title will be a BAD snatdisynf LAW. It will not be based on any kind of study or rational examination of a problem […]

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