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[quote=Anonymous]This story really terrifies me.  We are struggling to teach our son to be independent.  But he is such a stringent rule follower. What if we finally get him to say...walk to the corner alone...and the police pick him up and hold him for hours.  He'll never leave the house again.

Even if the parent are "using" their children to get a message across, its am important message.  We are making it illegal to NOT over-coddle our children.  I struggle with letting go myself, but to have the cops and CPS step it because they don't agree with a parenting choice as simple as the kids walking down the street is insane.  The  only harm the children have undergone is the harm by the police for essentially misleading them and kidnapping them.

I may not agree with this families choices - but I don't know the kids.  Maybe they are capable of walking alone for blocks.   A lot of us used to have that freedom when we were young.  Heck, we use to run loose when we were much younger.  The problem is that so many of us don't let our children be independent that we can fathom that maybe some kids at age 6 are capable of doing such things as walking to and from a playground alone.  I find that sad.

How on earth are kids ever going to learn to be independent if they aren't allowed out of parents arms reach until the are 10 or older?  [/quote]

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