We’ve all seen helicopter parents. Maybe you are one. They’re the folks who won’t let their kids step more than five feet from them without hovering. They’re fearful of letting…
We’ve seen it with school lunches, and with kids allowed to play on their own in parks. Now here’s one with parents who let their children walk home unsupervised. A…
I used to love articles like this. Somehow, I got it in my funny little noggin that universal pro-social behaviors contributed to the sustainability of communities. Such blubbering never sat…
Limited government is a great idea until too many choose to be naughty rather than trying to make the liberty thing work. A sharp increase in child neglect and abuse…
The Polk County Board of Commissioners would like to increase the “required school age” from seven to six. (Educators love to garble syntax to make themselves sound important and programming.)…
Last month, doing seasonal labor, I viewed many photographs. I saw one of children in a dog cage. I reported it to my superior, as I had been told caging…
I normally don’t write about things like this. As I mentioned before, crimes are tricky, and I hate the thought of parroting false charges. Unfortunately, I sense a growing trend…
Tired of eating its own lunch, Davidson County Schools signs off on a new policy designed to curb debt on unpaid school lunches. I’m all for saving the school system…
Very tough to make big sweeping statements given what we know about the facts on the ground up in Rowan County. It is clear that local authorities believed that children…
How long before we argue for funding to help ugly children deal with their “high risk” status, and the emotional scars that will likley follow? Why high risk? Researchers observed…