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The world is a dangerous place, though, and we all need to protect ourselves and our children, especially our children. – Terry Greenwald	Found on CNN 10 years ago
This is no joke, the threat that they can take my kids is real. – Danielle Meitiv	Found on CNN 10 years ago
So from that, I would say,' Yeah, I'm a free-range parent,' again, to me, the idea is, what happened to just parenting ? – Danielle Meitiv	Found on CNN 10 years ago
We have no problem with people looking out for our kids. That's actually what people always did, look out for each other, it's the idea that looking out for them then becomes reporting them to the police and making it criminal... that it becomes somehow this is neglect. My kids were playing at the park. – Danielle Meitiv	Found on CNN 10 years ago
The funny thing is, it's so funny to call it a philosophy. – Danielle Meitiv	Found on CNN 10 years ago
Our children need the freedom to grow into the happy, healthy, confident adults we want them to be, so we should trust our kids more. – Danielle Meitiv	Found on CNN 10 years ago
We've been encouraged in our society to do what I call worst-first thinking, which is come up with the worst-case scenario first and proceed as if it's likely to happen, and that's what happened with The Meitivs, someone sees two children alone, and they leap to' Oh, my God, they're neglected. What if they're run over by a Mack truck ? What if they're kidnapped ? There are predators all around.'. – Lenore Skenazy	Found on CNN 10 years ago
And if there is a bona fide question of neglect in my household, then Protective Services should be notified. Anything less than that is government overreach. – Harley LeBon	Found on CNN 10 years ago
My thought is if those of us who care for others would simply' keep an eye on' children as we drive to and fro, they would be safe nonetheless, if you see a child walking and he or she is being approached by what seems to be a stranger, pull to the side of the road and ask if he or she is OK. – Laura Beyer	Found on CNN 10 years ago
I grew up thinking my world would look like Don Draper's but it looked nothing like that, and my son (age 16) ... absolutely knows that his world will not look like that. – Michael Kimmel	Found on CNN 10 years ago
This provides a counter-narrative to all the action hero, buffoon images that we see. – Michael Kimmel	Found on CNN 10 years ago
Caring for my family is the most important thing in my life. It defines me as a man. – Jim Higley	Found on CNN 10 years ago
We've seen the needle move from flawlessness in the '50s to absolute helplessness in the '90s and now we kind of want the needle to come back down the center where it should be, we're not Superman, but we're not idiots either. – Doug French	Found on CNN 10 years ago
And this is where some of the confusion comes in. Allowing your first-grader to fail a spelling test because they did study is much easier for a parent to deal with than allowing your eight-grader to fail science because he chose not to study and will have to repeat the class over the summer. – Vicki Hoefle	Found on CNN 10 years ago
Boy oh boy, did I want her to quit. Both times I walked away from her, it was one of the hardest things I've ever done, now? She's absolutely crazy about roller derby and loves it. Can't wait to go each week. – Cecily Kellogg of Philadelphia	Found on CNN 10 years ago
Now? She's absolutely crazy about roller derby and loves it. Can't wait to go each week. – Cecily Kellogg of Philadelphia	Found on CNN 10 years ago
Every single time we turn around and say, 'I'll just do that for you' or 'Here let me help you with that,' we are saying to them, 'I don't think you can do that for yourself,' and that is really damaging over time. We create a really helpless culture of kids so that now when I talk to college professors, they say these kids show up to college unable to handle anything on their own. – Jessica Lahey	Found on CNN 10 years ago
But he came home at the end of the day and he's like, 'It's fine. I talked to my teacher,' giving kids the opportunity to problem solve when something goes wrong, there's nothing better than that and when we take that away from them, it's a real tragedy. – Jessica Lahey	Found on CNN 10 years ago
We want to feel needed and so when we take that homework assignment to school for them and rescue them, we feel we get to check that box off today. 'I was a good parent,'. – Jessica Lahey	Found on CNN 10 years ago
We see our successes in our own children so when we allow them to fail, that also kind of reflects on us ... and so it's uncomfortable but we need to get there because otherwise we're going to have these helpless kids who either feel incredibly entitled and who would want that, or helpless, they don't know how to do things for themselves. – Avital Norman Nathman	Found on CNN 10 years ago
I would not spank my children, i do not spank my children. I do not think someone else should. – Janeane Davis	Found on CNN 10 years ago
I was very frustrated by that situation, because I didn't feel like it was my place to step in and speak to the child, but at the same time, I couldn't allow my child to be bullied that way. i would not discipline another person's child if the parent was present. – Janeane Davis	Found on CNN 10 years ago
A stern talking-to is as far as I would go unless the child was about to either harm themselves or someone else. – Le Roy	Found on CNN 10 years ago
The kids got a kick out of it, so it was a way I kind of kept connected with them while I was gone, they need support getting through this deployment, just like we do over there. – Zackary Trissell	Found on CNN 10 years ago

The world is a dangerous place, though, and we all need to protect ourselves and our children, especially our children.

– Terry Greenwald

Found on CNN
10 years ago

This is no joke, the threat that they can take my kids is real.

– Danielle Meitiv

Found on CNN
10 years ago

So from that, I would say,' Yeah, I'm a free-range parent,' again, to me, the idea is, what happened to just parenting ?

– Danielle Meitiv

Found on CNN
10 years ago

We have no problem with people looking out for our kids. That's actually what people always did, look out for each other, it's the idea that looking out for them then becomes reporting them to the police and making it criminal... that it becomes somehow this is neglect. My kids were playing at the park.

– Danielle Meitiv

Found on CNN
10 years ago

The funny thing is, it's so funny to call it a philosophy.

– Danielle Meitiv

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Our children need the freedom to grow into the happy, healthy, confident adults we want them to be, so we should trust our kids more.

– Danielle Meitiv

Found on CNN
10 years ago

We've been encouraged in our society to do what I call worst-first thinking, which is come up with the worst-case scenario first and proceed as if it's likely to happen, and that's what happened with The Meitivs, someone sees two children alone, and they leap to' Oh, my God, they're neglected. What if they're run over by a Mack truck ? What if they're kidnapped ? There are predators all around.'.

– Lenore Skenazy

Found on CNN
10 years ago

And if there is a bona fide question of neglect in my household, then Protective Services should be notified. Anything less than that is government overreach.

– Harley LeBon

Found on CNN
10 years ago

My thought is if those of us who care for others would simply' keep an eye on' children as we drive to and fro, they would be safe nonetheless, if you see a child walking and he or she is being approached by what seems to be a stranger, pull to the side of the road and ask if he or she is OK.

– Laura Beyer

Found on CNN
10 years ago

I grew up thinking my world would look like Don Draper's but it looked nothing like that, and my son (age 16) ... absolutely knows that his world will not look like that.

– Michael Kimmel

Found on CNN
10 years ago

This provides a counter-narrative to all the action hero, buffoon images that we see.

– Michael Kimmel

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Caring for my family is the most important thing in my life. It defines me as a man.

– Jim Higley

Found on CNN
10 years ago

We've seen the needle move from flawlessness in the '50s to absolute helplessness in the '90s and now we kind of want the needle to come back down the center where it should be, we're not Superman, but we're not idiots either.

– Doug French

Found on CNN
10 years ago

And this is where some of the confusion comes in. Allowing your first-grader to fail a spelling test because they did study is much easier for a parent to deal with than allowing your eight-grader to fail science because he chose not to study and will have to repeat the class over the summer.

– Vicki Hoefle

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Boy oh boy, did I want her to quit. Both times I walked away from her, it was one of the hardest things I've ever done, now? She's absolutely crazy about roller derby and loves it. Can't wait to go each week.

– Cecily Kellogg of Philadelphia

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Now? She's absolutely crazy about roller derby and loves it. Can't wait to go each week.

– Cecily Kellogg of Philadelphia

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Every single time we turn around and say, 'I'll just do that for you' or 'Here let me help you with that,' we are saying to them, 'I don't think you can do that for yourself,' and that is really damaging over time. We create a really helpless culture of kids so that now when I talk to college professors, they say these kids show up to college unable to handle anything on their own.

– Jessica Lahey

Found on CNN
10 years ago

But he came home at the end of the day and he's like, 'It's fine. I talked to my teacher,' giving kids the opportunity to problem solve when something goes wrong, there's nothing better than that and when we take that away from them, it's a real tragedy.

– Jessica Lahey

Found on CNN
10 years ago

We want to feel needed and so when we take that homework assignment to school for them and rescue them, we feel we get to check that box off today. 'I was a good parent,'.

– Jessica Lahey

Found on CNN
10 years ago

We see our successes in our own children so when we allow them to fail, that also kind of reflects on us ... and so it's uncomfortable but we need to get there because otherwise we're going to have these helpless kids who either feel incredibly entitled and who would want that, or helpless, they don't know how to do things for themselves.

– Avital Norman Nathman

Found on CNN
10 years ago

I would not spank my children, i do not spank my children. I do not think someone else should.

– Janeane Davis

Found on CNN
10 years ago

I was very frustrated by that situation, because I didn't feel like it was my place to step in and speak to the child, but at the same time, I couldn't allow my child to be bullied that way. i would not discipline another person's child if the parent was present.

– Janeane Davis

Found on CNN
10 years ago

A stern talking-to is as far as I would go unless the child was about to either harm themselves or someone else.

– Le Roy

Found on CNN
10 years ago

The kids got a kick out of it, so it was a way I kind of kept connected with them while I was gone, they need support getting through this deployment, just like we do over there.

– Zackary Trissell

Found on CNN
10 years ago

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