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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
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The thing that really bothers me about all of this is the poor judgment shown by the cops and CPS. I don't care what your parenting philosophy is, but there is no excuse to delay calling the parents. They should have been notified right away or at least within the first hour.

The cops and CPS are supposed to be there to help keep children safe, not terrify them.

I totally agree with you.

Are you for real? 
Do you know the job of CPS? It is to protect the kids. These people had history with CPS, they were familiar with them . If they think this family is in any way in violation, do you think their first call is to the parents?? 
No, they access and determine course of action. Do you think they call "Shaniqua" when they take her kids, you think she is their first call? 
Miss me with your 1st world , privileged BA . [/quote]

See you miss the point, the kids did not need protection. So it's just harassment. [/quote]
They have to investigate to be sure the kids do not need protection. You cannot be that stupid. This is a waste of tax payer money and CPS time. If these dummies would have just complied with the regulations and the deal they signed and then gone off and lobbied to change the regulations/write a book/write their state rep, etc.
Instead people are all up in arms about these little privileged kids not being allowed to swing on the monkey bars by themselved. BOO-FREAKKING - HOO.
Get worked up about kids who are really in trouble, kids who DO NEED SUPERVISION/LUNCH/MENTORS. Instead all of this sound and fury about some privileged ass kids not being able to walk to the park. Yep, we have all of our priorities straight. [/quote]

NP here.  I don't want the system to tell me how to raise my kids and at what ages they think it is okay for my child.  Kids in MCPS walk to school sometimes up to a mile away.  They do not need to go assisted with a parent and many of them do not. Many walk alone, many with friends, many with siblings.  If the kids can walk to school, they can walk to a park, to a friends house, to a store, or anywhere else they want to go.  There is no set law in MC that says they can not.  These parents have done nothing wrong and I for one think CPS is wasting their time fighting this, when like you said, there are better battles to fight.  How about if CPS wants to cry neglect on parents like this, THEY go and change the regulations first and then start hunting kids down and harassing them with legal cause.  Because until them, my kids are still walking to the bus stop and to the park on their own.  [/quote]
You just don't get it. And yes, we do need some regulations as to what can and cannot with their kids -- we do. People do not mind that their are car seat laws or leaving kids alone in a car, etc. . I let my kids do stuff that technically may be against the regs and if I got called out on it -- I'd get over it and comply. Why? Because I know that I am responsible, but their are a lot of other people that are not and it is not going to kill me or my kids to not walk to Starbucks by themselves.  Folks get pissed because things are no longer old-school and neighbors are not friendly and looking out, but as soon as someone does -- there is hell to pay. These parents are loud mouth grand standers who are more interested in a cause then the possibility of losing their kids. Horrible execution on their part, so much else they could have done to change the regs if they disagree. Just another example of the privileged, all about me, entitlement epidemic in this area. [/quote]

So basically you are saying that you believe that there should be a law stating kids can't walk to a park unless they have a Mommy hovering.  Otherwise it wouldn't bother you that they are trying to fight CPS.  I can't imagine what a coddled up world our poor grandkids are going to live in.  It is bad enough right now.  Each decade, the kids get less and less freedom and ironically more and more disorders, depression and anxiety. [/quote]
thanks for providing a perfect example of exactly what i was talking about.

1) I said if you do not like the regs, lobby to change them. But you do not do it by taking the chance that your kids will go into the system.
    If you knew what that entailed, you would not take that chance

2) You are worried about walks to the park and mood disorders, when there are kids out there who are the same age as these kids whose parents are almost never home, kids who go hungry, kids who are NEVER properly supervised, kids who are undereducated and underserved. Kids who get called "FARMS", that people run away from because they think poor is a disease that their precious snowflakes will catch.

3) There are real, serious, life determining issues related to the kids in our world and people are about ready to lose their damn minds about walking to the park. 
     You know what -- MISS ME WITH THE BULLSH****!@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/quote]

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