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The Brave

So maybe there are more of you out there than I thought. When I wrote “Trick-or-Treating Minus the Parents,” I figured I would hear back from moms and dads whose children trick-or-treat in New York high-rises (with bellman) and don’t worry about kidnappers or other weirdo preying on their costumed kiddos running solo from floor-to-floor. Apparently, there’s another group of parents I overlooked: The “we live in the country and know all of neighbors and our kids have been trick or treating solo since they were toddlers and they are still alive” sect is quite an outspoken bunch. As I … Continue reading →

So Your Child Wants to Stay Home Alone—Part 2

I remember the first time my parents allowed me to stay home alone… it wasn’t exactly a momentous occasion considering my grandparents lived within walking distance of our house. Of course, a lot has changed since the early 80s, and now I can’t see allowing my daughter to remain home unsupervised until at least her 30th birthday. Jokes aside, if you successfully answered all of the questions I posed in my previous blog and feel confident that your child is ready to fend for himself, then consider the following tips offered by childcare experts to make his first solo venture … Continue reading →

The Curious Case of Sister-Wives

The other night I stayed up late watching TV because I couldn’t sleep. I ended up tuning into a show called “The Secret Lives of Women.” Apparently the show’s a series and features insight into different aspects of women’s lives. The night I watched the topic was polygamy. I have to admit, other than what I’ve seen from the media, I don’t know much about polygamy. I knew the concept of multiple wives sprung from religious beliefs, but I’ve never understood why any woman would sign up for that type of marriage. (Unless if she was forced into it, like … Continue reading →

Father Tries To Poison Kids

Here’s an example of one of those sad but true cases of parents gone mad. A 41-year-old Atlanta man has admitted that he poisoned soup and fed it to his two young kids in order to extort money from the Campbell Soup Company. He has plead guilty to communicating false claims. After placing “life-threatening foreign substances” in the soup and then forcing his kids to eat it, the man then called the company and claimed the soup was contaminated. The man’s children are 3-years-old and 18-months-old and unfortunately this is not an isolated case of his abuse. The kids were … Continue reading →

Update: 3-Year-Old Wanders On Interstate

Here’s an update to a blog I wrote about what I considered to be an example of bad parenting. It involved a 3-year-old Indianapolis boy found wandering down Interstate 465, clad in a t-shirt and diaper. You can read the blog here. The mother was charged with four counts of child neglect and the kids were placed in state custody. Initial reports stated that the boy’s sister was found eating spaghetti off the floor, in fact she was eating canned spaghetti out of the trash (the can had been placed in the trash the night before, according to the mother). … Continue reading →

Another Example Of Bad Parenting

It’s always disturbing to read about parents who don’t take their responsibilities as a parent seriously. I wanted my first blog of the year to be about something happy, but this is far more important an issue to me. This past Sunday yet another parent was negligent in her responsibilities as a mother when she allowed her 3-year-old to escape from their second floor apartment and wander off, ultimately finding his way to a busy interstate. According to police reports, the 3-year-old Indianapolis toddler was found playing on the busy highway, wearing nothing but a diaper and t-shirt, while his … Continue reading →

Who Adopted You?

On Christmas Eve, while at my mom and dad’s home, my husband, kids and I began to wind down for the night. My husband retreated to the spare room with our youngest, and our oldest who is five-and-a-half and I stayed out in the living room for our sleep over. Some of the grown-ups had been watching television prior so my son and I caught the tail end of the show COPS. Though this is not something we typically allow our young children to watch, it happened and my son was left with questions. This particular episode was on drug … Continue reading →

Baby Given Four Times the Legal Limit of Alcohol

We all know the dangers of adults drinking alcohol. Alcohol slows down mental functions and reaction time and in large amounts can case unconsciousness and even death. So why would parents give a two-month old baby alcohol? That is the question doctors and police in Colorado are asking themselves. The baby girl and her mother were dropped off at a hospital in Colorado by the mother’s boyfriend. Upon examination doctors found that the infant had a blood alcohol level of 0.364, four times the legal driving rate in Colorado. The mother gave mixed stories about what happened so investigators are … Continue reading →

Toddler Wanders Street Alone

This is a blog I wish I didn’t have to write. But I want to ask all parents with toddlers to please watch your kids carefully and make sure they cannot get out of the house. On Monday when I went to pick Tyler up from school, a child no older than two, was wandering down the street headed toward a busy highway. Thank God, a driver who didn’t mean him any harm, got to him before he made it to the highway. He flagged a school bus down and asked the driver to take him back to Tyler’s school … Continue reading →