I Let My 4 Kids Play Outside, On a Sunny Saturday. The Cops Wrote Up a Report.

[GARNET]

When I that age we pretty much had free run of the countryside and rode bikes and made forts and had apple fights and played tree tag..., I walked home from school on a country road and never even thought about danger... now I wouldn't even let my child go out and check the mail by himself because you just never know when someone will target them and it can happen in an instant... For that matter, I was advised not to let any of my shih tzu run in the front yard alone for the same reason...

 

[MelissaWV]

When I that age we pretty much had free run of the countryside and rode bikes and made forts and had apple fights and played tree tag..., I walked home from school on a country road and never even thought about danger... now I wouldn't even let my child go out and check the mail by himself because you just never know when someone will target them and it can happen in an instant... For that matter, I was advised not to let any of my shih tzu run in the front yard alone for the same reason...

The people who harm children did not suddenly spring up. There have been people doing untoward things to children, kidnapping them, and worse, for a very long time. What's more, they are more likely to meet those people in your home or at their school, or on the internet... none of those things are outside.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Oh yeah , I had a tire swing in the Woods on a good, big , leaning walnut , clear fifty feet around it , 100 foot rope , , my Dad was King for putting that up for us!

100 foot rope? /jealous The one I used only had a 20 ft rope or so, hanging from a big old oak tree.

 

[anaconda]

How long before babies are taken by the state at birth and immediately indoctrinated into the system?

 

[heavenlyboy34]

How long before babies are taken by the state at birth and immediately indoctrinated into the system?

They already have a head start with your slave number (SSN), birth certificate, etc.

 

[NCGOPer_for_Paul]

This is some ridiculous nonsense.

I grew up in what is now the People's Republic of New Jersey in the late 70's through the 80's.

Before I was 10, we'd play wiffle ball in the street, ride bikes, play football, street hockey, etc. ALL DAY LONG without anyone bothering us. I lived near what was a resevoir, and we'd fish in it.

During snowstorms, we'd build forts and have snowball fights. We'd go into someone's yard and play tackle football with no equipment. Sometimes a dad would come out and play QB.

When I was 11, I inherited a paper route. On Saturdays, I'd ride my bike and go "collecting" by myself for a few hours.

When I was 13, I'd run, doing workouts for football season.

As a teenager, we had a "town" street hockey team that would sometimes, (gasp) pile into the one 17 year old kid's car and drive 3 miles for a "road" game.

I guess that's all illegal now?

What the **** has happened to childhood, and learning how to do things on your own?

 

[pcosmar]

What the **** has happened to childhood, and learning how to do things on your own?

Getting to where a kid can't jump off the roof of the garage anymore.

 

[NCGOPer_for_Paul]

The people who harm children did not suddenly spring up. There have been people doing untoward things to children, kidnapping them, and worse, for a very long time. What's more, they are more likely to meet those people in your home or at their school, or on the internet... none of those things are outside.

Thing is now, the media has every parent so afraid that there's a predator behind every tree that parents are too afraid to let their kids go outside.

I have a four year old daughter. There are a few small children on our street here in Charlotte. However, no kids actually ring doorbells and ask to play, unless the parents see the other family outside. Except for one time last December. One parent rang our doorbell and asked if our daughter would want to play with her daughter. My daughter loved that. The two little girls ran around the front yard. Another mother saw it and brought her little girl over. The three girls loved it. Hasn't happened since then.

I think people are genuinely afraid of knocking on neighbor's doors.

 

[cstarace]

Can't use a radar detector in Virginia either. Virginia blows.

 

[pcosmar]

Can't use a radar detector in Virginia either. Virginia blows.

Do kids show up on Radar?

 

[cstarace]

Do kids show up on Radar?

Knowing the feds they've probably been implementing GPS tracking devices into the brain of every child born post-9/11, so I wouldn't be surprised.

 

[Mach]

It starts way before your kids go outside to play.

What did the hospital that you had your child in do with the blood sample? Do you think you own it?

http://www.americanbar.org/newsletter/publications/aba_health_esource_home/turner.html

“Big Brother” and the Growing Controversy Surrounding Newborn Blood Spots

One such case where government encroachment into civil liberties is currently being debated concerns newborn blood spot (NBS) samples. Hospitals have been pricking newborns’ heels and collecting blood samples to test for genetic, metabolic, and developmental disorders since the 1960’s. All states require screening tests, and with good reason. If not caught early, many of the disorders can lead to brain damage, mental retardation, and even death. 2 Consequently, few parents dispute the need for the tests themselves—or give a second thought to the fate of their newborn’s blood samples after they take their baby home.

For years, NBS samples were only kept for a limited time before they were disposed of. 3 Then technology and science exploded in the1990’s, and everything changed. Scientists realized that the NBS samples contained a wealth of genetic information on just about every baby born in the United States. States began storing the NBS samples for research and, in some cases, even sent samples to biobanks. In 2003 and 2007, the US military received 800 NBS samples from the Texas Department of State Health Services in order to “help develop a mitochondrial DNA database for use by law enforcement.” 4 In Michigan, millions of NBS samples in a state warehouse were used to create a “neonatal biobank” in Detroit in the hopes of making the city a center for biomedical research. 5 The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) also collected newborn blood samples and kept them indefinitely, sharing them not only with hospitals, but private research institutions 6 --all without parental consent.