Gee, I wonder why our kids are getting so obese?

Screw this.

Additionally when I started letting my middle school kid walk home from school (0.6 miles away on main roads) I honestly felt sick about it. Not because I thought anything bad would likely happen but because I could imagine if something *did* happen how much…

How are kids supposed to exercise anymore? If they can't walk or bike around their neighborhood, can't go to the park or the swimming pool, if all they can do is stay inside being supervised, no wonder the health of the nation is suffering.

We're going to get to the point that no person under 18 is allowed to be alone at home or in public at any time. They will then be drop kicked across the threshold on their birthday and left to their own devices to figure out how to tie their own shoes. I agree 100% with the parents on this one.

I was going to say this! My parents didn't subscribe to any type of parenting methods or whatever and I was allowed to go downtown and hang out with my friends when I was 9. My aunt would leave me alone with her 8 year old and triplet 5 year olds for an hour (running to the store or something) when I was 10. They need…

helicopter parents are SO obnoxious. These parents did nothing wrong. These children did nothing wrong. Grow the fuck up. I can't stand helicopter parents, other kids & parents can't stand helicopter parents. Give kids some freakin' credit, they aren't half as dumb or incapable as ppl think.

Damn straight! It can't possibly be "new age" or "hipster", since my grandparents let my parents do it in the 50s & 60s, and my parents let me do it in the 80s. This is actually really old-school parenting!

Granted, I grew up in the country, but by 11 I was riding my bike upwards of 7 or 8 miles away from home. This was the 80s, though, when kids were still allowed outside.

So I'm Australian so feel free to bash away, but I am gobsmacked at the "child safety" priorities here. Every day I read on my newsfeed in the US about mass school shootings of children, children shooting each other at home, a 2 year old shooting their mother in Walmart, accidental death of 6 year olds playing with…

This comment assumes that the children in question hadn't demonstrated their level of maturity to the parents previously, at which point they were given the freedom to walk home alone. By the evidence provided in this article, the parents knew what they were doing: they'd evaluated the potential risks the children…

I'm a teacher in Philly. The level of abuse that occurs to some children and they are left in those homes is just astounding!!!!! Maybe when we report the neglect, physical and sexual abuse we should mention that they also walk home alone. Maybe that'll get some fucking results.

No kidding. I mean, these sound like parents who are absolutely the opposite of neglectful—they've given their parenting a lot of thought and consideration and come up with a cogent philosophy and rational strategy. If this is the worst thing their county's CPS is up against, then congratulations! You can go ahead and…

This is bullshit. Call it whatever new-age hipster shit you want, these parents have the right idea. There is ZERO wrong with letting your kids walk home together, especially if the distance is short. That's how they learn independence. It's how they become more aware of their surroundings, and it's how they learn to…

Homeschooling should be illegal

What baffles me is how difficult it is to get kids out of abusive homes, and they go around threatening for this? They have WAAAAY better things to be doing.

These stories always confuse me, because in my decade of teaching I have found CPS to be so overburdened that we have to seriously harass them to intervene. I had a 9 year old student whose mother would make her sleep in the garage (in Canada, in winter) and it took NUMEROUS calls to get them to investigate. It…

Are parents with full-time job really not allowed to let their children go to the park alone? Or walk to the store? or go to the library? I am deeply uncomfortable with this. As an ex-latch-key this is offensive. Jesus let kids eat some dirt.

Shouldn't they be focused on kids who were actually being abused? I used to walk places all the time when I was a kid. I guess I'll have to inform my parents that they were abusive.

This is crazy. A 10 and a 6 year old, together, are old enough to walk home.

This is what I saw when I read :

The thing that made my blood boil was the eyeglass part. YOU CAN PULL MY EYEGLASSES FROM MY COLD, DEAD FACE YOU REGINA GEORGE CLONE!