I'd laugh too, but I wouldn't respond because the kind of guy I'd date wouldn't be sending things like this to random women so...

Honest question here: Why do so many guys nowadays think that hitting on a woman like this is in any way acceptable? Why is PUA so rife? Why can't so many guys talk to women like they're normal human beings? Does it have something to do with the misogyny that screams out from the media in everything from music videos…

Is it bad that I snort-LOLed at that line? DEAD, y'all.

Let's get real: Homeboy was a C-list crooner until he (or his record company) paid Pharrell some un-godly amount of money to produce and write or co-write the entire "Blurred Lines" album. Basically doing what a few other "Just about to be dropped" artists have done using Pharrell's services. He is very reliable…

For a seven-year-old, a fifteen-minute walk is under a mile. For sure.

A Milky Way of stars to you, my friend. You are totally correct.

But those kinds of childhood injuries are unavoidable. I had a relatively protective mother in a city atmosphere, and I still ended up rocketing down into a rocky ditch on my bicycle, beause I was going too fast and the brakes were rusty. You're supposed to get knocked around a little when you're a kid! It toughens…

I was just in my local grocery store and they had a "child abduction drill." Seriously - like a fire drill, only for kidnapping! All the employees stopped work, fanned out to block the exits and did a sweep until they found a fake "child" (a safety cone). In the 100 plus years this town has been incorporated, there…

I read that article, too. And another (attendant) issue is—"kids these days" are not used to not being "supervised" (or having adult playmates/attention) and are freaked out by it. Like a few months ago, before it got really hot (so it was maybe 79- 80 degrees) we (my husband and I) sent the kids (who are his from a…

Good on you! In sane moments, I remind myself that proximity is no guarantee of safety (see: the parents of "South Park" exiling their children to the wilderness to keep them "safe").

When I was five, my family temporarily relocated to a foreign country. Every day, I walked a half a mile to a tiny market so that I could buy a peach and candy cigarettes. This was after walking to and from school by myself, of course.

A few months ago The Atlantic did a great story about how kids in the US are overscheduled, never allowed to do things independently, and this younger generation hasn't learned to be independent because they've been under the constant supervision of an adult. Essentially, playtime alone helps children, whether its…

SO glad I grew up on a 7.5 acre farm in the middle of nowhere; the closest neighbors couldn't hear us if we were screaming bloody murder in the woods. My mom would be the exact kind of parent who would not flutter an eyelash if my brother or I wanted to walk to the neighborhood park alone. We lived in the environment…

And in this case, it doesn't even sound like a lack of child care, as in a kid spending all day in a park. It sounds like a kid going to the park by himself, with a way to get in touch with his mom any time he needed to.

Here's an idea, cops. Go hang out in the damn park where kids are playing if you're so worried about them getting snatched by pedophiles. How about that? The benefits are two-fold, parents can feel confident that their children are safe when they're freaking playing in the PARK, and you might have a chance to…

Chances are, the concerned parent that spotted this kid, recognized him and doesn't like his mother.

I don't understand this. Social Services is supposed to be about services. Mom and child would be way better off connecting to a case worker that can help find adequate child care (if it even exists) than to go to this extreme.

Ok, so I'm a Nervous Nelly and my kids will probably be 15 before I ever let them go anywhere alone, but I see unsupervised kids at the park every time I go! Why are people being singled out for this, and since when is it a crime?!

And then people complain that kids are inside all day playing video games instead of playing pick up games with their friends.