Sadly, as of recently I feel like her blog has gone from the "Free Range Kids" movement to the "Lazy Selfish Parents" movement. I'm all for what it originally stood for...encouraging kids to walk places and to play outside. To love your neighbors rather than to fear them and to reignite community.
But sadly, these posts now seem to be an all to distant memory. Instead, they have been replaced by posts about leaving kids, even young babies, in cars alone (horrible car-centered idea), drinking wine while pregnant (another horrible idea), and trying to claim formula is just as good as breastmilk. Don't even get me started on this last one as it flies in the face of everything this book stands for. Not to mention pretty much every study that isn't being funded by some corrupt industry shows human breastmilk is superior.
Sadly, the people who seem to comment there now are basically like those of Ekalfwons: greedy and selfishness. It's like they are in some race to the bottom to see who can leave the youngest child, in the hottest/coldest conditions in their stupid gas guzzler SUV which they probably drove two blocks to get there. These idiots have even gone as far as to suggest dark window tints to prevent anyone noticing their child who may be meanwhile freezing or baking to death (or maybe just crying helplessly in vain not knowing where mom or dad is and why no one is coming for them when they cry).
No I'm not making this up. This was the actual post below
"lollipoplover December 5, 2016 at 1:07 pm #
“The officer told my wife that if your our child is out of sight for more than “10 seconds”! We are endangering our child”
Should I call the police on myself while in the bathroom? The definition of endangered has certainly changed.
And a 4 year-old is NOT a baby. This cascade effect of this overreaction caused more harm to this child and his family than any period of time this child was sleeping “endangered” in a car.
Tinted windows, people. I highly recommend them".
Too lazy to parent a 4 year old or take them with you...nice. So I guess that now leaves those of us who aren't lazy, parenting these poor kids instead of the parents, checking in windows of dark color SUVs knowing this stupidity is going on.
Now they are on the blogtoday again bragging about their stupid useless SUVs, bragging about how they exploit animals, and defending some idiot who's kid had to be taken out of his vehicle by paramedics.
Not helicoptering doesn't equal neglecting your child. Something which now seems to be lost of this new breed of so called "Free Range Parents" who are really just a bunch of "Lazy Selfish Parents".
Side note: If you see a baby, toddler or young child left alone in a vehicle do not hesitate to call the police (either the non-emergency number or 911 depending on the situation). Many children have died this way and it is a slow painful death. Pay special attention to SUVs or others vehicles with dark window tint, especially if you happen to be walking by, as now we have people buying these vehicles just to leave kids in them in dangerous conditions to prove how "Freerange" they are. . You could save a life.
