Posted on 08/06/2012 9:45:49 AM PDT by Altariel
Yes, readers, it’s another case of child protective craziness. According to the Manchester, Conn. Patch, a local mom was charged with “risk of injury to a minor and failure to appear after police say she allowed her seven-year and 11-year old children to walk down to Spruce Street to buy pizza unsupervised.”
And according to reader Bob who sent this to us, Google Maps shows that we are talking about a half-mile walk! In addition to the solidarity of outrage, please post your ideas for how to protest the idea that kids are in danger every time they do something on their own, even something dumbfoundingly mundane, which means also protesting any time helicopter parenting becomes the only ”legal” way to raise our kids. – L.
I was four years old the first time I went trick-or-treating. My guardian? My older brother. He was seven years old. We went all over the place.
I was four years old the first time I went trick-or-treating. My guardian? My older brother. He was seven years old. We went all over the place.
In the late fifties early sixties we played a crude form of kickball too in grade school. About fifty kids on a side and no rules other than kicking the ball into a playground fence for a "goal". Quite a lot of fun actually as every time you got close to the ball, there were about twenty other kids trying to kick it.
When I was 6 we lived on a farm and had the Monday to Saturday newspaper delivered to our door. (The morning bus driver would throw it out when he went past, then the dog would find it and bring it the rest of the way).
When I was 6½, they introduced a Sunday edition, parents did not want to order it sight unseen, so that first Sunday, I walked one mile to the township by myself to buy a copy.
These people are nuts!
Nanny State PING!
bfl
Thanks for the ping!
Geez Louise, I hate it when I can’t figure out what state it’s in.
For God’s sake, an 11 year old? You can’t send the 11 year old down to tha quikie mart to get your juice for your gin n juice anymore? With a note so the clerk will sell’em your cigarettes? Children are supposed to help out. When would that child be permitted to walk down to the Papa Johns n’ get the pizza? When they’re 12? 16? 18? 21? Are they allowed to walk home from school? Silly crap. And all based on the extremely rare event where a kid tragically gets napped.
The prevalence of that is exceedingly rare. VERY very sad when it happens, and it results from 50 years of liberal control - lack of ability to put people away where they won’t harm anybody. BUT, it’s a rare event, like a plane crash, that creates a bias in us that’s unwarranted. You can’t stop living because there’s danger in the world. That child will grow up twisted if the parents try. At any rate, having a parent arrested for letting a child out of the house is unprecedented.
Nice story, but I suspect they are not living in rural area. 1 Mile out in the sticks is a far cry from 1 mile in a city. I walked long distances too when I was young, but I grew up in a more rural area, I think 1/2 mile is a bit far for a 6 or 7 year old these days in an urban environment these days sadly.
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