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The so-called “free-range kids” bill was signed into law by Republian Gov. Gary Herbert on Friday after the state House and Senate voted unanimously to approve the legislation.
The new law, which will take effect on May 8, specifies that it is not a crime for parents to allow kids who display maturity and good judgment to do things like walk to school alone or play outside without supervision.
You want "free range," move to Alaska. You don't even have to educate your kids there. You can raise them any way you want.
You can leave a baby and a toddler home with 6 and 8 year old sisters for 14+ hours a day while you work and go drinking after work with your friends. Oh, they'll send a social worker to the house with a list of options. But there are no consequences. Or at least weren't to the neighbor who lived down the road from us.
Quite the place.
"Free range" seems to mean that supervising your kids is a hit or miss operation. Some do. Some don't.
Yeah it’s sad that a law like this had to be passed, but it’s needed. People think it’s more dangerous than we were kids, but it’s safer. You just hear more due to 24 hr news. There have been tons of helicopter people calling CPS, police and so on when kids were allowed to do simple things like a short walk home or the like.
"Free range" parenting doesn't mean a short walk home. It means they can wander about as the please without anyone knowing where they are or what the are up to.
We've all seen "free range" kids at the parks and playgrounds. They are the ones who fall off the slide and here is no one there to see if they dislocated or broke anything.
"Free range" parenting doesn't mea a short walk home. It means they can wander about as the please without anyone knowing where they are or what the are up to.
We've all seen "free range" kids at the parks and playgrounds. They are the ones who fall off the slide and here is no one there to see if they dislocated or broke anything.
But...that is how it was when I was a kid in the 80s. We left the house and just knew to come back when my mom did her loud whistle. We would climb a hill to go get snacks at a local convenience store. Go to the green belt to play, and so on. Walked to and from the bus stop. It’s swung way too far the other way. Maybe this will help find a middle ground.
Yeah many of us grew up in free range societies and had a happy childhood. Others were raped and/or killed.
I think people romantize their childhoods way too much. I don’t think the newer generations feel like something was taken away from them just because their parents knew where they were at all times.
"Free range" parenting doesn't mean a short walk home. It means they can wander about as the please without anyone knowing where they are or what the are up to.
We've all seen "free range" kids at the parks and playgrounds. They are the ones who fall off the slide and here is no one there to see if they dislocated or broke anything.
When I lived in Costa Rica I hooked up with a small air outfit and I was flying all over the country. I was 7.
Then when I lived in Adana, Turkey I went to the train yards. I got to know a few engineers and soon I was driving steam engines up to hundred km from where I lived. I was 13.
Ten in Guyana I hooked up with a bush pilot outfit and soon I was flying all over the country. The first two my parents never knew. The third they were aware and took a life insurance policy on me since flying single engine airplanes over jungles was a bit interesting.
My parents trusted my judgement and never helicoptered over me.
Yeah many of us grew up in free range societies and had a happy childhood. Others were raped and/or killed.
I think people romantize their childhoods way too much. I don’t think the newer generations feel like something was taken away from them just because their parents knew where they were at all times.
what a joke, So I guess growing up and when our kids were growing up we were breaking the law letting them walk to school or walk home from the bus stop and holy Lord what were we thinking when we allowed to come home to an empty house for those 15 minutes before we got home from shopping.
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