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Kids Unleashed
by Leslie Garrett | June 5th, 2012 | 1 Comment
topic: Family Health, Fitness, Green Living, Health & Wellness | tags: abduction, asthma, bike to school, childhood obesity, Etan Patz, exercise, Fitness, high blood pressure, kids, milk carton, missing child, nature, outdoors, outside, parenting, physical activity, safety, stranger danger, type 2 diabetes, unsupervised children, walk to school
My nine-year-old is covered with mosquito bites, bruises and scratches. From the time she arrives home from school until I call her for dinner, she’s AWOL — running through woods, building forts out of sticks, catching toads … .
To hear some parents tell it, the fact that I haven’t a clue exactly where my nine-year-old is for an hour or more at a time is evidence of poor parenting, if not outright criminal neglect. And with a recent arrest in the cold case of six-year-old Etan Patz (the first missing child to have his face on a milk carton), this sentiment increasingly runs high.
