Comments on: Are Today’s Parents Too Crazy With Worry? http://gagasisterhood.com/family/are-today%e2%80%99s-parents-too-crazy-with-worry/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tate Langworthyhttp://gagasisterhood.com/family/are-today%e2%80%99s-parents-too-crazy-with-worry/#comment-266 Tate Langworthy Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://gagasisterhood.com/?p=2429#comment-266 Hilarious! I often wonder which comes first: the child that does not understand personal safety and takes TOO many risks (think out-of-control tornado) or the parent that shadows every movement the child makes. I cannot say my kids "free-range" as we live in the city. They free-range it in fenced parks. :) Hilarious! I often wonder which comes first: the child that does not understand personal safety and takes TOO many risks (think out-of-control tornado) or the parent that shadows every movement the child makes. I cannot say my kids “free-range” as we live in the city. They free-range it in fenced parks. :)

]]> By: Susan Adcoxhttp://gagasisterhood.com/family/are-today%e2%80%99s-parents-too-crazy-with-worry/#comment-263 Susan Adcox Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://gagasisterhood.com/?p=2429#comment-263 The line from The Granny Diaries that I love and use all the time is: "We kids were set out in the yard in the morning and brought in at night, like cats. A kid who was in the house was a kid running up the light bill."I have a bit of a discussion going in my forum about this very topic, which is extremely interesting to me. I am definitely going to look up Skenazy and check out what she has to say. I think I'm going to agree with her. I also am a fanatic about helmets, car seats and safety belts, but I think children should be on their own some of the time! The line from The Granny Diaries that I love and use all the time is: “We kids were set out in the yard in the morning and brought in at night, like cats. A kid who was in the house was a kid running up the light bill.”

I have a bit of a discussion going in my forum about this very topic, which is extremely interesting to me. I am definitely going to look up Skenazy and check out what she has to say. I think I’m going to agree with her. I also am a fanatic about helmets, car seats and safety belts, but I think children should be on their own some of the time!

]]> By: Tracy Lucashttp://gagasisterhood.com/family/are-today%e2%80%99s-parents-too-crazy-with-worry/#comment-262 Tracy Lucas Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://gagasisterhood.com/?p=2429#comment-262 I think I'm a safe balance of somewhere in the middle...I've had too many near accidents and freakish people in my life to not observe the details the majority of the time... but I do try to appear nonchalant, and my kids don't know a quarter of the things I fear for them. I let them try just about everything; I just feel my blood run cold as they do. :) I think I’m a safe balance of somewhere in the middle…

I’ve had too many near accidents and freakish people in my life to not observe the details the majority of the time… but I do try to appear nonchalant, and my kids don’t know a quarter of the things I fear for them. I let them try just about everything; I just feel my blood run cold as they do. :)

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