PROFILE
FROM Kim Brooks
Is it dangerous to leave your kids in the car while you go into a store? Kim Brooks left her 4-year-old son in the car while she ran into Target to get him a pair of headphones. It was a cool day, the windows were cracked, the doors were child-locked, and the alarm was on. He was happily playing with his iPad. She estimates he was alone for five minutes. Someone took a video and called the police.
Is Free-Range Parenting Child Endangerment? Parents in a suburb of Washington, DC let their 6- and 10-year old kids walk home unattended from a local park. Now they’re among the parents around the country in legal limbo for encouraging kids to grow up independent and responsible for themselves. How much supervision is too much? Is GPS monitoring the answer?
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