The following snippet is from an article that I read this morning, it struck a chord with me. If only more parents were more like this, and less anal about their children I think we'd be raising a generation that's not so fucked up.

Free Range Kids

I was confronted with a truth this week I should’ve already known: The way we parent and treat our child is very different than most people can begin to understand or appreciate. It’s all around us.

• We were asked to leave the children’s museum because of our lack of helicopter parenting.


• A local playground won’t allow him and his friends to play while the moms watch from the grass.


• The library deems 10 the magic age to sit unaccompanied while a parent walks the aisles.


• The convenience store on the corner doesn’t allow in any aged minor without a guardian.

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