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Showing posts with label LENORE SKENAZY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LENORE SKENAZY. Show all posts

Thursday, February 19, 2015

IN HARTFORD COURANT OP-ED, LENORE SKENAZY SPEAKS OUT AGAINST OVER SUPERVISING OUR CHILDREN!


Lenore Skenazy speaks out in the pages of The Hartford Courant as follows:

"Two Maryland parents stand accused of doing the unthinkable: They trusted their kids, 10 and 6, to walk home from the park. The children got about halfway there when someone saw them and called the cops.

For this, parents Danielle and Alexander Meitiv have been visited by the police and child protective services. Their kids were interviewed at school, without their consent. CPS even threatened to take their children away.

All because we are having a hysterical moment in American society. We believe children are in danger every single second they are unsupervised.
I learned this firsthand six years ago, when I let my 9-year-old ride the subway alone (we live in New York). I wrote a column about it. Two days later I found myself decried as "America's worst mom" on the "Today" show, MSNBC, Fox News and NPR..."

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