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Friday, May 1, 2009

parenting Kids
Guest: Lenore Skenazy (Author, Free Range Kids)




Posted at 5/01/2009 11:00:00 AM
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7 comments:

  1. texasmama1015/1/09, 1:48 PM

    i agree with this chick
    i mean my kids dont get bus service cause we live more than 2 miles away from the school

    they ride thier bikes a few blocks
    hell i use to walk a half mile to the bus stop and half mile from

    i understand times have changed but come on what ru gonna do lock em up????????????

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  2. texasmama1015/1/09, 1:53 PM

    i meant less than 2 miles lol i had to many drinks today

    my mom has my kids cause fort worth isd has shut down

    but hey im having fun*grins embarrassed*

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  3. NTK2A5/1/09, 2:59 PM

    Um... I was left alone every morning, set the alarm, walked to the bus stop, and walked home from the bus stop, disarmed the alarm, cooked my own afterschool meals and stayed home by myself or played outside in the neighborhood until 5:30pm every school day by the time I was in third grade. And this was in the mid to late 80's AFTER the whole Adam Walsh saga, the 1983 movie Without a Trace, and the Etan Patz disappearance in 1979 literally six days before I was born which totally freaked my mother out. So she and my father KNEW there was danger out there -- but they let me live my childhood without smothering me.

    Childhood is made for these types of life lessons. You can't hold a child and lock him up for 18 years with no preparation and then just send them on their merry way expecting them to fly! I don't get all of this "guilt" Barbara and Joy seem to have. It must be a cultural thing.

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  4. Anonymous5/1/09, 3:45 PM

    I agree - kids can't always be dependent on their parents. They need to explore the world on their own a little. Or else by the time they're adults - they'll still be screaming "Mommy! Mommy!"

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  5. Sara5/1/09, 5:30 PM

    I get that a lot of these fears are irrational, and I'm getting better at not having a heart attack when my son escapes my sight, but it's just scary when I can't see him. One thing I do not want to instill in my child is a sense of fear of the world, but it's hard trying to find that balance.

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  6. Anonymous5/1/09, 5:48 PM

    They won't be. Most kids are fine. They learn independence at school being away from their parents... the idea is to be alone from parents... not be alone... period. Most kids walk to school with other friends or siblings. Letting your kid ride the subway alone... especially at night is too much of a risk.

    Kids are little in stature. Adults are big in stature. You just have to do the math and read the statistics. You really don't know what nutjobs are out there. Wrong place, wrong time or just lucky.

    When they're in a group they become perceptively "stronger" and hopefully will deter a potential predator the more they proliferate.

    Or at least wait til they're in middle school and actually grow a bit and not look so innocent.

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  7. Anonymous5/4/09, 6:55 AM

    I had to walk to school/ride my back since i was in the 2nd grade....and i was the 1st one home until around 5:00pm so i dont really see whats wrong with this. I live in Atl and EVERYDAY i see little kids on the train, going to some private school...

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