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Title: 'Free-range' parents livid after police take children, 6 and 10, from park into custody
Category: lifestyle
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2015-04-14 08:42:20
Canadian

   

I was just going to decry the level of insanity, and saw "Washington, DC". Ah! Nothing to see here, move along, move along.

   

I remember reading this story the first time cops got involved. The world has gone mad, this is like the parenting version of chicken-hawkism. Everyone's terrirfied of exaggerated dangers and out to skin other people alive because the bloodletting releives the anxiety.

   

Going by the reader comments below the article, glad to see that on this side of the border people are overwhelmingly more reasonable.

   

That's why I'm glad I took advanced statistics courses. They make life so much easier to live, without all the people trying to say 'the sky is falling'.

Kids have such a low chance of being abducted by a stranger, you'd have to put them by the roadside with a sign saying 'Abduct me' for like 10 years straight before they'd get abducted. Pretty low odds.

   

Me and Hyack are lucky cause we had bikes and were told to go play and the only rule was be home for supper.

   

We had the same kind of parents. "Be home for lunch, and stay close enough to hear me when I call. Beyond that . . . begone!"

   

I didn't think they invented the wheel till he was in his teens.

   

   

I stand corrected.

   

A mile .... a freaking mile. Man my parents should have been locked up then. I would walk further then that just to play a pick up baseball or foot ball game at that age. I know I was going around 10 miles from home on my bike almost every weekend.

   

We used to walk or ride our bikes down to Fort Rodd and Esquimalt Lagoon, from Belmont Park when I was in Grade Two and Three. When I was in Grade Three, we moved to Flin Flon for a short while, and we lived just on the Saskatchewan side along Hapnot Lake and I walked along the lake or across it, when frozen to get to school. That's where I also went to cubs.

When I moved to southern Manitoba, I would often ride my bike 8 kms. to my cousins place, with three kms of the road down along river, where we often saw black bears. Before I got my drivers license, I'd ride my bike almost 20 km(one way) to go into town on the weekends. During warmer weather I'd ride my bike home from school as well. There were about 7 or 8 of us. We also went horseback riding on the weekends up into Riding Mountain National Park and camped overnight, starting when I was 12.

   

The real issue is the parents let them outside unarmed. The 10 year old should've had at least a concealed Glock and the 6 year old, bear spray and a Taser.

   

The neighbor kid's mom insisted she come over to pick up her 6 year old because he cold not walk home 5 doors down and in full view of our house. Never mind a mile.

   

We're raising a generation of cripples. (not me ... I'm a "free ranger")

   

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