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Posts Tagged ‘child protection’
Volunteering at your kid’s school
Be prepared to submit to fingerprinting.
Older siblings banned from middle school pickup
Because you can’t be too safe. [Free-Range Kids]
Leave Junior alone in the car for even 45 seconds…
…and something bad might happen. Can you guess what that bad thing is most likely to be? [Free-Range Kids]
“England recovers from background check mania”
Parents who volunteer at school won’t need to hold back until they’ve completed a police scan. [Free-Range Kids]
“‘Police! Step Away From the Chess Table'”
Gotham cops crack down on pawn pushers in parks. [NY Times]
More poppy seed madness
“Eat a bagel, lose your baby” [Jacob Sullum, Reason] For more on the problematic legal status of the classic bagel and European-bread enhancement, see Michael Pollan’s classic 1997 Harper’s article.
Hallowe’en a low-risk holiday for kids
Lenore Skenazy debunks the scare: there’s no evidence that any American child has ever been killed by poisoned candy from a stranger.
Can a 7-year-old cross the road unaided?
Authorities in the Lincolnshire village of Glentham, U.K., are threatening action based on “child protection” if a couple continue to let their daughter walk 40 yards to her school bus stop. The couple say the road isn’t particularly busy and that Isabelle is good about looking both ways before crossing. [Daily Mail]
“Emma Thompson on Making Kids Brave”
Famed for playing (among others) the tough Nanny McPhee, the actress has this to say (BabyCenter interview via FreeRangeKids):
I think it’s good to be brave because then you’re also slightly more able to cope with failure and failure of course is your best friend in every regard really. Children are brave and they’re more likely to take risks and they’re more likely to learn really important lessons.
That’s really what I mean by being brave, you know. That we take care of our children very carefully and that’s absolutely right, but in certainly my culture children are being so, I think, stifled by sort of health and safety so that they’re not climbing trees anymore, they’re not taking risks, physical risks anymore.