This link has been bookmarked by 37 people . It was first bookmarked on 07 Apr 2008, by Chris Silano.
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Half the people I’ve told this episode to now want to turn me in for child abuse. As if keeping kids under lock and key and helmet and cell phone and nanny and surveillance is the right way to rear kids.
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“The statistics show that this is an incredibly rare event, and you can’t protect people from very rare events. It would be like trying to create a shield against being struck by lightning.”
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21 Apr 08
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13 Apr 08
Andrew DeVigal"The problem with this everything-is-dangerous outlook is that over-protectiveness is a danger in and of itself. A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't." - Spot on!
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nathan arnoldGood point -- statistics on crime against kids is down year-after-year, and yet parents are more afraid now than ever...
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A terrific article about one mom's fight against hyper-fearful parents that want to duct tape their kids to the inside of their home (The New York Sun [Lenore Skenazy], April 4 2008).
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12 Apr 08
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Lloyd Shepherd"We become so bent out of shape over something as simple as letting your children out of sight on the playground that it starts seeming on par with letting them play on the railroad tracks at night. In the rain. In dark non-reflective coats."
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Tom Woodward“Parents are in the grip of anxiety and when you’re anxious, you’re totally warped,” the author of “A Nation of Wimps,” || schools and teachers
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11 Apr 08
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Bradley DilgerThankfully, there is at least one person in the US who doesn't subscribe to the Nancy Grace School of Parenting
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So on that sunny Sunday I gave him a subway map, a MetroCard, a $20 bill, and several quarters, just in case he had to make a call.
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As if keeping kids under lock and key and helmet and cell phone and nanny and surveillance is the right way to rear kids. It’s not. It’s debilitating — for us and for them.
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Well of course I know the story of Carlie Brucia. That’s the problem. We all know that story — and the one about the Mormon girl in Utah and the one about the little girl in Spain — and because we do, we all run those tapes in our heads when we think of leaving our kids on their own. We even run a tape of how we’d look on Larry King.
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These days, when a kid dies, the world — i.e., cable TV — blames the parents. It’s simple as that.
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Justice Department data actually show the number of children abducted by strangers has been going down over the years. So why not let your kids get home from school by themselves?
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We become so bent out of shape over something as simple as letting your children out of sight on the playground that it starts seeming on par with letting them play on the railroad tracks at night. In the rain. In dark non-reflective coats.
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A child who thinks he can’t do anything on his own eventually can’t.
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09 Apr 08
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05 Apr 08
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Derek CarterTry and help your kids be independant
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';DROP TABLE USERS;The problem with this everything-is-dangerous outlook is that over-protectiveness is a danger in and of itself. A child who thinks he can’t do anything on his own eventually can’t.
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04 Apr 08
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