DC parents leave kids in car for wine tasting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of the most vocal "free range" parent advocates has written a piece decrying the fact that the parents didn't get their kids back immediately. She defends them on the basis of the IPhone (which was "giving the kids an open connection to" the parents!) and argues that the police should have tried "teaching them that this wasn't a good idea and telling them not to do it again" instead of arresting them." Because "seizing their children" is "acting as if they were deliberately cruel."

Unbelievable.

http://reason.com/blog/2015/02/03/parents-who-left-kids-alone-in-cold-car

That's wack. (And I am a fan of free range parenting).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of the most vocal "free range" parent advocates has written a piece decrying the fact that the parents didn't get their kids back immediately. She defends them on the basis of the IPhone (which was "giving the kids an open connection to" the parents!) and argues that the police should have tried "teaching them that this wasn't a good idea and telling them not to do it again" instead of arresting them." Because "seizing their children" is "acting as if they were deliberately cruel."

Unbelievable.

http://reason.com/blog/2015/02/03/parents-who-left-kids-alone-in-cold-car

That's wack. (And I am a fan of free range parenting).

Yes! This Schenazy free range woman should butt out of this one-totally a different situation than typical Free Range parenting. Letting your 8 year old play outside near your home, 9 year old walk to a nearby park, or 11 year old to the corner store for milk is vastly differnt from leaving 2 babies strapped in a freezing car for an hour while their parent's drink wine. Schenazy is nuts!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of the most vocal "free range" parent advocates has written a piece decrying the fact that the parents didn't get their kids back immediately. She defends them on the basis of the IPhone (which was "giving the kids an open connection to" the parents!) and argues that the police should have tried "teaching them that this wasn't a good idea and telling them not to do it again" instead of arresting them." Because "seizing their children" is "acting as if they were deliberately cruel."

Unbelievable.

http://reason.com/blog/2015/02/03/parents-who-left-kids-alone-in-cold-car

That's wack. (And I am a fan of free range parenting).

Yes! This Schenazy free range woman should butt out of this one-totally a different situation than typical Free Range parenting. Letting your 8 year old play outside near your home, 9 year old walk to a nearby park, or 11 year old to the corner store for milk is vastly differnt from leaving 2 babies strapped in a freezing car for an hour while their parent's drink wine. Schenazy is nuts!

Free-range is used for older children. This bitch is crazy. Infants/toddlers can not inherently be free-range because they have not yet developed mental or physical capabilities to be safe.

Yea--my 22-month old that swallowed all of his siblings Legos was 'free-ranging' so I did not see it happen

[Anonymous]

Do the free range children taste better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had my car window punched out in NW for an iPhone on the seat. No kids though.

These a-holes leave their kids plus their phone??

+1. Maybe because I come from a country with high crime rates, I would never in a million years excuse these parents' behavior. Apart from the cold factor, I cannot fathom how one could leave little kids (babies really) unattended and risk someone breaking into the car, harming them, stealing the car with the kids inside or kidnapping them. It's just unthinkable how not one, but two individuals came to the conclusion that this was somehow acceptable.

But they parked in front of the ritz to ensure nothing would happen to the car

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do the free range children taste better?

Sounds like a modern day Brothers Grimm tale.

[Anonymous]

The police report says one of the adults was dropped off at the wine bar and then the other adult parked the car, sat in it for a few minutes, and then left.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had my car window punched out in NW for an iPhone on the seat. No kids though.

These a-holes leave their kids plus their phone??

+1. Maybe because I come from a country with high crime rates, I would never in a million years excuse these parents' behavior. Apart from the cold factor, I cannot fathom how one could leave little kids (babies really) unattended and risk someone breaking into the car, harming them, stealing the car with the kids inside or kidnapping them. It's just unthinkable how not one, but two individuals came to the conclusion that this was somehow acceptable.

But they parked in front of the ritz to ensure nothing would happen to the car

No they didn't. Abc nightly news had a segment where the reporter showed where they had parked and then the restaurant at the same time of day. It was around the corner. And with the sun glare even if you looked out a window from the restaurant craning your neck you can't see inside any window of any car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of the most vocal "free range" parent advocates has written a piece decrying the fact that the parents didn't get their kids back immediately. She defends them on the basis of the IPhone (which was "giving the kids an open connection to" the parents!) and argues that the police should have tried "teaching them that this wasn't a good idea and telling them not to do it again" instead of arresting them." Because "seizing their children" is "acting as if they were deliberately cruel."

Unbelievable.

http://reason.com/blog/2015/02/03/parents-who-left-kids-alone-in-cold-car

I just the read the article and she's not defending the parents for doing it she just thinks putting the kids with strangers and no contact with their parents for two weeks and then possibly throwing the parents in jail for 10 years is overkill. I agree with her. I have no idea what these parents were thinking but how is it better to put two more kids in the foster care system? Also, how does it help the kids to be suddenly yanked away from their parents with absolutely no contact until the next court date? Wouldn't supervised mandated parent education and monitoring be better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of the most vocal "free range" parent advocates has written a piece decrying the fact that the parents didn't get their kids back immediately. She defends them on the basis of the IPhone (which was "giving the kids an open connection to" the parents!) and argues that the police should have tried "teaching them that this wasn't a good idea and telling them not to do it again" instead of arresting them." Because "seizing their children" is "acting as if they were deliberately cruel."

Unbelievable.

http://reason.com/blog/2015/02/03/parents-who-left-kids-alone-in-cold-car

I am not even going to click on this, as it's deliberately provocative to get clicks. Plus Reason is a libertarian rag so it's no surprise that someone would defend this in that publication.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Do the free range children taste better?


Sounds like a modern day Brothers Grimm tale.

Only for a week or two after holloween.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of the most vocal "free range" parent advocates has written a piece decrying the fact that the parents didn't get their kids back immediately. She defends them on the basis of the IPhone (which was "giving the kids an open connection to" the parents!) and argues that the police should have tried "teaching them that this wasn't a good idea and telling them not to do it again" instead of arresting them." Because "seizing their children" is "acting as if they were deliberately cruel."

Unbelievable.

http://reason.com/blog/2015/02/03/parents-who-left-kids-alone-in-cold-car

That's wack. (And I am a fan of free range parenting).

Yes! This Schenazy free range woman should butt out of this one-totally a different situation than typical Free Range parenting. Letting your 8 year old play outside near your home, 9 year old walk to a nearby park, or 11 year old to the corner store for milk is vastly differnt from leaving 2 babies strapped in a freezing car for an hour while their parent's drink wine. Schenazy is nuts!

Free-range is used for older children. This bitch is crazy. Infants/toddlers can not inherently be free-range because they have not yet developed mental or physical capabilities to be safe.

Yea--my 22-month old that swallowed all of his siblings Legos was 'free-ranging' so I did not see it happen

This. That article is insane. You can't leave babies and toddlers unattended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do the free range children taste better?

Only if you keep their diets organic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of the most vocal "free range" parent advocates has written a piece decrying the fact that the parents didn't get their kids back immediately. She defends them on the basis of the IPhone (which was "giving the kids an open connection to" the parents!) and argues that the police should have tried "teaching them that this wasn't a good idea and telling them not to do it again" instead of arresting them." Because "seizing their children" is "acting as if they were deliberately cruel."

Unbelievable.

http://reason.com/blog/2015/02/03/parents-who-left-kids-alone-in-cold-car

That's wack. (And I am a fan of free range parenting).

Yes! This Schenazy free range woman should butt out of this one-totally a different situation than typical Free Range parenting. Letting your 8 year old play outside near your home, 9 year old walk to a nearby park, or 11 year old to the corner store for milk is vastly differnt from leaving 2 babies strapped in a freezing car for an hour while their parent's drink wine. Schenazy is nuts!

Free-range is used for older children. This bitch is crazy. Infants/toddlers can not inherently be free-range because they have not yet developed mental or physical capabilities to be safe.

Yea--my 22-month old that swallowed all of his siblings Legos was 'free-ranging' so I did not see it happen

This. That article is insane. You can't leave babies and toddlers unattended.

That article basically was 'don't hate them because they are rich'.

I'll bite. We are very similar finacially, education-wise, age-wise to this couple. We also happen to own a 1million+ rowhouse in similar area.

I think why it is so distasteful is that we do find it absurd that such-educated people could be so stupid. The fact they have every means available to take care of their kids--hiring babysitters, etc. makes this even harder to stomach.

I don't feel it's attack on the rich by any means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do the free range children taste better?

Only if you keep their diets organic.

I bet Dylan McKay tasted fine.