Anonymous
Post 04/13/2015 06:55     Subject: Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Scenario: 6 yo falls off the monkey bars and breaks his arm. What will the 10 yo do?
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2015 06:55     Subject: Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:After everything they went through the first time around you would think they would be a little more cautious. Those poor kids. The parents must really be clueless. Regardless of how you feel about letting the kids go to the park alone, you've got to admit that they screwed up this time. Their prior involvement with CPS obviously didn't phase them. I suspect this time it might.

Question: why don't they just take their kids to the park? It was gorgeous outsude this weekend. What on earth are the parents so busy with at home? I suspect they simply aren't involved parents. They're probably at home reading.


You know who really screwed up, though? CPS and the police.

As to why they didn't just take their kids to the park -- my kids (who are 8 and 11) really like going to the playground by themselves. I assume that their kids do too. I honestly don't know what to tell my kids now about what to do if somebody gets nosy, or if the police show up to take them away.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2015 06:54     Subject: Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Guess what: Our society today expects that a 6 yo will have adult supervision at a park. 10 yo is borderline, but a 6 yo, yes.

The parents are dead wrong, and they seem to be deliberately trying to be martyrs or something. They're beyond obnoxious.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2015 06:52     Subject: Re:Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Whatever.


+1 Everyone was doing what they thought was right.

I have no interest into getting into another long thread about this again. OP just wants to find fault. Boring.


I'm not the OP, and I want to find fault. You know all those worries about kids being abducted by strangers? For these kids, that worry became reality yesterday, thanks to a busybody neighbor.

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/28783266/free-range-kids


What? They weren't abducted. These parents care more about publicity and ideology than their kids.


They weren't abducted? Your definition of abduction must be different from mine.


It must be. Mine is based in reality.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2015 06:51     Subject: Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
After everything they went through the first time around you would think they would be a little more cautious. Those poor kids. The parents must really be clueless. Regardless of how you feel about letting the kids go to the park alone, you've got to admit that they screwed up this time. Their prior involvement with CPS obviously didn't phase them. I suspect this time it might.

Question: why don't they just take their kids to the park? It was gorgeous outsude this weekend. What on earth are the parents so busy with at home? I suspect they simply aren't involved parents. They're probably at home reading.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2015 06:41     Subject: Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:Time to jail the parents


For what? Letting their children walk a third of a mile to the park on a spring afternoon? Having the bad judgment to live near a neighbor who wants to get them in trouble?
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2015 06:41     Subject: Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Whether or not I agree that these kids should be able to do this type of thing, I can't imagine doing it after the first instance of CPS involvement. Seems kind of stupid and asking for trouble.


Well, you can focus on the parents, or you can focus on the police and CPS -- you know, the law. I think the actions of the police and CPS are the issue here.


Maybe. But I wouldn't risk putting my kids through another incident with CPS over my desire to have them be "free-range." No way.


I wouldn't either. But is that the issue? That's like finding out about the shooting in South Carolina and saying, "Whether or not I agree that the police shouldn't shoot people in the back when they are running away from the police, I can't imagine running from the police during a traffic stop."


Well, no. The issue here is the judgment of the parents, which seems to be somewhat lacking. But thanks for trying to make this so inflammatory and about race.


Who said anything about race? This is about the actions of public authorities.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2015 06:39     Subject: Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Time to jail the parents
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2015 06:37     Subject: Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Whether or not I agree that these kids should be able to do this type of thing, I can't imagine doing it after the first instance of CPS involvement. Seems kind of stupid and asking for trouble.


Well, you can focus on the parents, or you can focus on the police and CPS -- you know, the law. I think the actions of the police and CPS are the issue here.


Maybe. But I wouldn't risk putting my kids through another incident with CPS over my desire to have them be "free-range." No way.


I wouldn't either. But is that the issue? That's like finding out about the shooting in South Carolina and saying, "Whether or not I agree that the police shouldn't shoot people in the back when they are running away from the police, I can't imagine running from the police during a traffic stop."


Well, no. The issue here is the judgment of the parents, which seems to be somewhat lacking. But thanks for trying to make this so inflammatory and about race.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2015 06:36     Subject: Re:Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Whatever.


+1 Everyone was doing what they thought was right.

I have no interest into getting into another long thread about this again. OP just wants to find fault. Boring.


I'm not the OP, and I want to find fault. You know all those worries about kids being abducted by strangers? For these kids, that worry became reality yesterday, thanks to a busybody neighbor.

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/28783266/free-range-kids


Seriously? A link to Fox News? LOL

Go grind your ax someplace else. I doubt you even have young children.


myfoxdc is Channel 5. But sure, if you don't want to watch the Channel 5 news, how about this from the Channel 4 news?

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/CPS-Investigating-Md-Free-Range-Parents-Again-299520411.html
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2015 06:34     Subject: Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Whether or not I agree that these kids should be able to do this type of thing, I can't imagine doing it after the first instance of CPS involvement. Seems kind of stupid and asking for trouble.


Well, you can focus on the parents, or you can focus on the police and CPS -- you know, the law. I think the actions of the police and CPS are the issue here.


Maybe. But I wouldn't risk putting my kids through another incident with CPS over my desire to have them be "free-range." No way.


I wouldn't either. But is that the issue? That's like finding out about the shooting in South Carolina and saying, "Whether or not I agree that the police shouldn't shoot people in the back when they are running away from the police, I can't imagine running from the police during a traffic stop."
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2015 06:33     Subject: Re:Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Whatever.


+1 Everyone was doing what they thought was right.

I have no interest into getting into another long thread about this again. OP just wants to find fault. Boring.


I'm not the OP, and I want to find fault. You know all those worries about kids being abducted by strangers? For these kids, that worry became reality yesterday, thanks to a busybody neighbor.

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/28783266/free-range-kids



Seriously? A link to Fox News? LOL

Go grind your ax someplace else. I doubt you even have young children.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2015 06:30     Subject: Re:Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Whatever.


+1 Everyone was doing what they thought was right.

I have no interest into getting into another long thread about this again. OP just wants to find fault. Boring.


I'm not the OP, and I want to find fault. You know all those worries about kids being abducted by strangers? For these kids, that worry became reality yesterday, thanks to a busybody neighbor.

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/28783266/free-range-kids


What? They weren't abducted. These parents care more about publicity and ideology than their kids.


They weren't abducted? Your definition of abduction must be different from mine.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2015 06:27     Subject: Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Whether or not I agree that these kids should be able to do this type of thing, I can't imagine doing it after the first instance of CPS involvement. Seems kind of stupid and asking for trouble.


Well, you can focus on the parents, or you can focus on the police and CPS -- you know, the law. I think the actions of the police and CPS are the issue here.


Maybe. But I wouldn't risk putting my kids through another incident with CPS over my desire to have them be "free-range." No way.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2015 06:27     Subject: Re:Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Whatever.


+1 Everyone was doing what they thought was right.

I have no interest into getting into another long thread about this again. OP just wants to find fault. Boring.


I'm not the OP, and I want to find fault. You know all those worries about kids being abducted by strangers? For these kids, that worry became reality yesterday, thanks to a busybody neighbor.

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/28783266/free-range-kids


What? They weren't abducted. These parents care more about publicity and ideology than their kids.