Fearmonger Alert: Pre-Register Your Kid for an Abduction
The pitch smacked of fearmongering: a promo for temporary ID tattoos for kids, paired with an encouragement to sign up for a registry that lets you put together a profile of your child IN CASE they’re ever abducted.
Do we really need to live in such fear that we’ll pay $19.95 for an update-able registry listing for police to check out should our child ever be grabbed by a sex offender? How about just keeping a current photo of your child on hand? Continue reading »
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Tags: abductions, Amber Alert, child safety, custody battle, family kidnapping, fearmongering, ID tattoo, Jeanne Sager, kidnapping, missing child, missing children
Kids Forbidden to Bike or Walk to School
Here’s a rich one for our desperate-to-get-the-kids-more-exercise society: In the upstate New York town of Saratoga Springs, children at some schools aren’t allowed to bike or walk to school. In fact, when one student rode to school, with his mother, on a bike path, his bike was confiscated (the rule had never been publicized).
The principal goes on at some length rationalizing the rule. Mostly he’s scared of traffic and stranger abductions. Continue reading »
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Tags: abductions, Axel-Lute, bike safety, depression, exercise, fear, Free-range kids, liability, obesity epidemic, safe routes to school, Saratoga Springs, stranger danger
