Mom arrested for not knowing precisely where her 1[emoji646] year old was

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/22/us/mo...cec/index.html

10 year old in rural GA goes out to woods then walks to town. Mom doesn’t know where he is but takes older son to chiropractor. Karen sees boy walking and calls the police. Police charge Mom with reckless endangerment.

People wonder why some kids live such sheltered lives.

I live in a small town and part of the allure to our house was it is near public land and our kids will go play in the woods. Our best friends live up the street about 250 yards and we talked about letting them walk or ride their bikes to each others houses when they are 7. I want my kids to have freedom and be able to explore their environment. I’ll say our local school has a lot of kids who ride their bikes to school and this obviously isn’t a problem as the school supports it and has a place for kids to put their bikes. This case is nuts.

That's insane. At 5 years old I was walking aprox. a mile to school.
Nowadays the kids in my neighborhood are bused and
their not let off the bus (at their driveway) unless someone is there to collect them.

At twelve we were taking the train into Grand Central then the subway up to
the Bronx for Yankees games. (Back then most games were day)

The only questionable parenting is taking the older kid to the chiropractor.

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I always walked to kindergarden at age 5 and then of course grade 1

I'm gona joke & say uphill both ways but it was really only uphill 1 way but these are different times

recntly a 5 yr kid with some autism was lost out for almost a week and found the SAR guy told me he had never seen that many people on a SAR there were 650 people searching and they found her in OK shape hungry with no shoes

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Originally Posted by toast2266

The only questionable parenting is taking the older kid to the chiropractor.

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FTW.
Anyway it's not the 10 year olds you have to worry about, it's the 16 year olds, especially the ones with drivers licenses.

One thing I like about my town is that you see kids from 7-8 on walking/biking/playing in the park by themselves pretty regularly. By 10, you'll see a good amount of kids roaming around.

I don't always like what they're getting up to and I think they should be pedaling rather than e-scootering as a personal preference, but I'm glad that's still a thing here.

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Originally Posted by neufox47

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/22/us/mo...cec/index.html

10 year old in rural GA goes out to woods then walks to town. Mom doesn’t know where he is but takes older son to chiropractor. Karen sees boy walking and calls the police. Police charge Mom with reckless endangerment.

People wonder why some kids live such sheltered lives.

I live in a small town and part of the allure to our house was it is near public land and our kids will go play in the woods. Our best friends live up the street about 250 yards and we talked about letting them walk or ride their bikes to each others houses when they are 7. I want my kids to have freedom and be able to explore their environment. I’ll say our local school has a lot of kids who ride their bikes to school and this obviously isn’t a problem as the school supports it and has a place for kids to put their bikes. This case is nuts.

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Growing up in New Hampshire in the 70s we were always roaming around unsupervised. Id be out of the house before my parents were awake and that was fine with them. If we weren't home on time for supper or got lost in the woods we got into big trouble. The parents weren't at fault it was the kids fault. then you would get a smack on the ass and sent to bed without supper. Those were good days.

So glad to have caught my peak years of childhood before cell phones were a thing. Guess I had one in 6th or 7th grade, but got to experience full free range autonomy before about 12-13 years old.

That article is wild.


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Kinda surprised there are Karens in rural Georgia.

At my first experience living in Tokyo I was shocked at the 8yo's riding the metro alone and/or with their friends to school. Then I realized that are millions of legit, good people standing right next to them that would likely risk their own life for them, so maybe it's not a fair comparison.

Regardless, kids are "required" to walk/train to school from age 8 here.

"Where's Riki?" (our 9yo.)
"I don't know, he said he was going to his friend's house."
"Which friend?"
"He didn't even know, he was just going to go knock on various friends' doors until he found someone."
"Cool... I'll text some moms."

I can't imagine getting arrested for that.

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At my first experience living in Tokyo I was shocked at the 8yo's riding the metro alone and/or with their friends to school. Then I realized that are millions of legit, good people standing right next to them that would likely risk their own life for them, so maybe it's not a fair comparison.

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I knew Tokyo subways were crowded. I didn't realize they were that crowded.

they employ " oshiya " people who's job it is to push everyone inside the subway cars

I’m petty sure I was a crossing guard when I was 10…

Like…I was trusted with some minor responsibility for other people’s children in addition to getting myself to school early to collect my flag vest.

I even had a badge!

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Originally Posted by singlesline

I’m petty sure I was a crossing guard when I was 10…

Like…I was trusted with some minor responsibility for other people’s children in addition to getting myself to school early to collect my flag vest.

I even had a badge!

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boot licking, ass kissing, brown nose. I bet you cleaned erasers too.

we don need no stinkin' badges...

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boot licking, ass kissing, brown nose. I bet you cleaned erasers too.

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Well not everyone can quit school at age 10 and become a mammoth hunter.

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Originally Posted by singlesline

I’m petty sure I was a crossing guard when I was 10…

Like…I was trusted with some minor responsibility for other people’s children in addition to getting myself to school early to collect my flag vest.

I even had a badge!

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I did that for 2 months in 5th grade. Didn't have a badge but I had a white canvas X shaped harness thing they let me take home because if I had to be at school too early I had to walk or ride my bike by myself.

My parents would be in prison. I did entire seasons of school sports without their knowledge.

I did entire seasons of school sports without their caring. Is that the same thing?

The lesson here, which is universally true, is to never admit anything to police, ever.

"Yes, I know exactly where my son is. He's playing in his fort in the woods. Oh, he ran into town against my express instruction? Thank you for bringing him back, he's in deep shit."

This is one of the dumber things ever, BUT it is a ringing (unfortunately) endorsement for getting children phones at a young age. You for sure need to lock that thing down, but the Life 360 app would have saved this lady all this hassle. I know where my kids are at all times, my phone, my right.

Can you imagine getting caught up in the system over this? That poor lady now has lawyer fees, Child Services showing up, etc. Phone would have been cheaper insurance, as much as I hate the damned things.

Agree: re phones and life 360. My 16 and 13 year olds have them, works fine, but it's actually annoying sometimes that my 10 year old doesn't. But I don't want her to have one that young. I let them free range more than most parents and have definitely had a time or two where I thought I may have to go out searching for the youngest.

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Kinda surprised there are Karens in rural Georgia.

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They are everywhere.

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The lesson here, which is universally true, is to never admit anything to police, ever.

"Yes, I know exactly where my son is. He's playing in his fort in the woods. Oh, he ran into town against my express instruction? Thank you for bringing him back, he's in deep shit."

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sounds like time for another episode of "shut the fuck up friday"

https://youtu.be/JTurSi0LhJs?si=hc3m5y_0StXJ5FYs

When I was kid I used to climb way up a redwood tree in our yard. Some Karen out for a walk one day called the cops and stood by to show them the child in a tree in their own yard. The cops knocked on the door and asked my mother if she knew where I was, she told them probably up in the tree. They told the Karen to get a life and left. People are odd.