Comments on: Abandonment ? http://www.frenzieddaddy.com/static/archives/2008/08/29/abandonment/ It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. --- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:42:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta1-9513 hourly 1 By: Stacy http://www.frenzieddaddy.com/static/archives/2008/08/29/abandonment/comment-page-1/#comment-7209 Stacy Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:53:46 +0000 http://www.frenzieddaddy.com/?p=1031#comment-7209 "Since when is having an 11-year-old kid walk a few blocks home a crime?" I pretty much agree with this. The circumstances seem reasonably safe: a low-crime suburban parking lot in summer, with home a few blocks away. To say that they constituted "grave danger" seems ridiculously paranoid. I would assert that we are raising the single most sheltered generation in the history of human culture. It's a far more dangerous experiment, I think, than letting an 11 year old kid walk a few blocks. The father came back. He made an unwise choice and acted to rectify it. I'm sure that it's not a mistake he would repeat. “Since when is having an 11-year-old kid walk a few blocks home a crime?”

I pretty much agree with this. The circumstances seem reasonably safe: a low-crime suburban parking lot in summer, with home a few blocks away. To say that they constituted “grave danger” seems ridiculously paranoid. I would assert that we are raising the single most sheltered generation in the history of human culture. It’s a far more dangerous experiment, I think, than letting an 11 year old kid walk a few blocks.

The father came back. He made an unwise choice and acted to rectify it. I’m sure that it’s not a mistake he would repeat.

]]> By: Steven http://www.frenzieddaddy.com/static/archives/2008/08/29/abandonment/comment-page-1/#comment-7208 Steven Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:20:20 +0000 http://www.frenzieddaddy.com/?p=1031#comment-7208 One man's tough love is another man's opportunity to puff up his worldly views by making it a crime for parents to try to be parents to their own children. And they wonder why parents around the world keep getting mixed messages about doing their parental jobs. It's hard damn work to be a parent, and though not every choice is right, not every wrong choice should end up with a "one strike and you're out" ruling. One man’s tough love is another man’s opportunity to puff up his worldly views by making it a crime for parents to try to be parents to their own children. And they wonder why parents around the world keep getting mixed messages about doing their parental jobs. It’s hard damn work to be a parent, and though not every choice is right, not every wrong choice should end up with a “one strike and you’re out” ruling.

]]> By: Whit http://www.frenzieddaddy.com/static/archives/2008/08/29/abandonment/comment-page-1/#comment-7207 Whit Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:18:09 +0000 http://www.frenzieddaddy.com/?p=1031#comment-7207 What's the difference between walking home from there or school or the mall? Was the guy right? I don't know, but he came back. Seems like tough love, not crime. What’s the difference between walking home from there or school or the mall? Was the guy right? I don’t know, but he came back. Seems like tough love, not crime.

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