I might also add that just being a “southern hick” does not necessarily make one “dumb and stupid” either. Put me along side a lot of southern hicks and you wouldn’t know the difference…and they’re not dumb or stupid.
All that is red is not right…as in correct. Also, it was blue just a few years ago. Wrong is wrong, no matter the color. Like I said in another post, unless there is a “rest of the story” to this I hope the woman wins.
The Head of School where my daughter goes referenced Jonathan Haidt's book Anxious Generation about social media and its (negative) effects and it's drawn a lot of feedback from parents. But another part of his book is the Free Play movement. Not to beat a dead horse here but yeah, supporting free play now make's one a hick? I think he's going to get a lot of push back on that.
why were your parents white trash?
Some people can only view the world through politics (red and blue). To each his own but it can be very limiting. The whole discussion over Free Play isn't a right or left thing. How parents, gov't etc. react to Free Play isn't a right or left thing. Arguing over that misses what's happening here.
My kids sometimes walked, sometimes rode their bikes to school at 8. Exactly 1 mile from my house, no issues.Georgia mom charged after son walks alone less than a mile from home
A mom in Georgia is facing possible jail time after her 10-year-old (almost 11) son was found walking alone to town, less than a mile from the family’s home.
Brittany Patterson, 41, was arrested on suspicion of reckless conduct on Oct. 30 over her son's unsupervised walk, according to the Fannin County Sheriff's Office.
Patterson had taken another son to a doctor’s appointment when she left her son Soren, now 11, alone at their home in the rural town of Mineral Bluff, NBC News reported. After someone reported Soren’s wandering, deputies located him and drove him home.
"It's not a super dangerous or even dangerous-at-all stretch of road," Patterson told the outlet. "I wasn't terrified for him or scared for his safety."
Brittany Patterson, 41, was arrested after her son was found walking alone less than one mile from home in their rural town of Mineral Bluff, Georgia. (Fannin County Sheriffs Office)
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Still, deputies returned to the home later and placed Patterson under arrest.
In bodycam footage obtained by ABC News, deputies could be heard telling Patterson she is under arrest for reckless endangerment.
Brittany Patterson, 41, was arrested after it was reported to deputies that her son, who was 10 at the time, was walking alone less than a mile from the family's home. (Fannin County Sheriffs Office)
"And how was I recklessly endangering my child?" Patterson asked.
Another deputy responded, "We're not talking about it," before handcuffing the mom.
Patterson and her lawyer said that authorities offered to drop the charge if she signed a safety plan that included using a GPS tracker on her son’s phone.
The mom said she is refusing to sign the plan and will fight the charge.
"I just felt like I couldn't sign that and that in doing so, would be agreeing that there was something unsafe about my home or something unsafe about my parental decisions and I just don't believe that," the mom told ABC News....
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Who thinks this is governmental overreach? And how many parents do you think they arrested the NEXT DAY for Trick or Treating? This kid was less than a mile from home. When you were a kid did you ever walk unaccompanied less than a mile from home at age 10-11? I used to walk that far to school almost everyday.
So you're a hick?
I agree it’s not a left or right issue. I raised my kids with a lot of freedom and unsupported time. I think it’s very good for them. My 17 year old and his 17 year old friends just got back from a boat trip to the Bahamas by themselves, they cleared customs themselves and caught a 50 lbs Wahoo. Crossed the Gulf Stream twice without an adult.
Maybe
I suppose like most things there can be extremes and nuance needs to be involved. But I share your perspective. You do hear stories of kids basically having to be an adult starting at an early age. I would never go that far. But I differ strongly from my wife and her "we need to have eyes on her at all times" perspective.
I was being somewhat facetious of course based on a prior statement made ITT.
Guno argued the opposite (it was safe in the '50's thus kids come do things like ride the subway and play outside without supervision and it's different today, thus not safe).
People called me crazy, incidentally Trumppers, for riding the NYC Subway last year with my daughter.
I don't know if you remember this (I didn't) but in 2008 there was a Mom who let her 9 year old son ride the Subway alone in NYC (and then she wrote about it). It made national news and she got voted some 'Worst Mom' award.
There's a VERY big difference between riding the subway with your kid and having your kid ride the Subway alone. The whole debate about Free Play isn't parents doing things with their kids. My wife is kind of a helicopter parents (doesn't want my 8 year old daughter walking three blocks to the park alone) but she doesn't care that I walk her.
I understand, it was an incidental story, but I think Americans are more afraid in general these days.
Not so much abuse as utterly stupid. It produces dependent, stupid, and clueless children.
it's a dem attack on white people
Stupid