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Cable news has ed parents up so badly. I ain't that old and when I was a kid all my friends and I were allowed to walk around the town by age 7 or so as long as we told our parents where we were going. And crime rates are lower now.
The WaPo reports that Danielle and Alexander Meitiv in Montgomery County Maryland say they are being investigated for neglect after letting their 10-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter make a one-mile walk home from a Silver Spring park on Georgia Avenue on a Saturday afternoon. "We wouldn't have let them do it if we didn't think they were ready for it," says Danielle. The Meitivs say they believe in "free-range" parenting, a movement that has been a counterpoint to the hyper-vigilance of "helicopter" parenting, with the idea that children learn self-reliance by being allowed to progressively test limits, make choices and venture out in the world. "The world is actually even safer than when I was a child, and I just want to give them the same freedom and independence that I had — basically an old-fashioned childhood," says Danielle. "I think it's absolutely critical for their development — to learn responsibility, to experience the world, to gain confidence and competency."
On December 20, Alexander agreed to let the children walk from Woodside Park to their home, a mile south, in an area the family says the children know well. Police picked up the children near the Discovery building, the family said, after someone reported seeing them. Alexander said he had a tense time with police when officers returned his children, asked for his identification and told him about the dangers of the world. The more lasting issue has been with Montgomery County Child Protective Services which showed up a couple of hours later. Although Child Protective Services could not address this specific case they did point to Maryland law, which defines child neglect as failure to provide proper care and supervision of a child. "I think what CPS considered neglect, we felt was an essential part of growing up and maturing," says Alexander. "We feel we're being bullied into a point of view about child-rearing that we strongly disagree with."
Cable news has ed parents up so badly. I ain't that old and when I was a kid all my friends and I were allowed to walk around the town by age 7 or so as long as we told our parents where we were going. And crime rates are lower now.
That and busybodies that have nothing better to do...
at least the kids were on the sidewalk tbh
, school districts don't pick you up on the bus unless you're more than two miles away.
I see kids walking around in mornings all the time. I often wonder about their safety but damn, what are they supposed to do?
I used to walk home from junior high a whole lot, across a busy highway and it was almost 2 miles (not close enough for the bus). I actually preferred it to the bus as I went to a really ghetto school. Worst thing that happened to me was some asshole threw a rock from a school bus as it drove by and bashed me in the head. Like Nono said, busybodies being little fascists.
What lib ed city was this again?
If they had Arab names, it would be seen as "horrible Muslim practices"
Wow. CPS would've camped out at my house when I was a kid. smh
i was riding a bike around the neighborhood when i was 7-8...
Bike, skateboard, walked up to middle school to shoot hoops.
With no helmet, uphill both ways in the snow etc
I was flipping packs when I was 10, tbh..damn..
I used to bring lunch to my great grandparents when I was 8..It was a 10 minute walk going there and 10 minute back..
I remember it was fun as fuk...
How are kids going to learn?
That we could all could live with, but where does the state get off telling people how to raise and protect their kids?Cable news has ed parents up so badly.
examples?
that's so extreme, it made the news. Is that all ya got?
Do you object to "govt" telling kids to eat better, as in fresh foods, not BigFood junk, and get exercise?
no, I don't. if ignoring the government's nutritional advice led to visits from CPS I might think otherwise, but it doesn't.
And you wonder why people call you a bot.
Do I wonder? never
You obviously do.Do I wonder? never
examples (plural) of govt telling how to raise kids?
investigating parents for kids walking home alone is bs.
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