Browsing: Walk to School / Stay Home Alone / Wait in Car

Hi Folks! Here’s a short, sweet post by Seattle reporter Denise Gonzalez-Walker, who did something radical: She met her neighbors.…

Yowza. A mom fed up with her bickering daughters, age 10 and 12, ordered them out of the car in…

“….Once upon a time, decades ago, mothers were able to let their elementary-aged children roam free and alone.

“While many, including us, look upon this halcyon time with fondness and a longing for its return, the fact remains that things are different now. The days of Andy Griffith’s Mayberry and “Leave it to Beaver” are gone.”

My 10-year-old son wanted the chance to walk from our house to soccer practice behind an elementary school about 1/3 mile from our house. He had walked in our neighborhood a number of times with the family and we have driven the route to practice who knows how many times. It was broad daylight – 5:00 pm. I had to be at the field myself 15 minutes after practice started, so I gave him my cell phone and told him I would be there to check that he made it and sent him off. He got 3 blocks and a police car intercepted him.

The old joke — never that funny, actually — is about a rich lady who takes her grown son on…

Now nsehzedikd that school’s back in session — which, by the way, is how absolutely every parenting article that runs…

I left my 9-year-old at Bloomingdale’s (the original one) a couple weeks ago. Last seen, he was in first floor…