{"id":8435,"date":"2014-06-10T15:36:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T19:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=8435"},"modified":"2014-06-10T15:36:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T19:36:20","slug":"stop-helicopter-parenting-other-peoples-kids-michael-brendan-dougherty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/06\/stop-helicopter-parenting-other-peoples-kids-michael-brendan-dougherty.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Stop Helicopter-Parenting Other People&#8217;s Kids&#8221;: Michael Brendan Dougherty"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>yeah:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s an odd way to \u201chelp\u201d a child who is unsupervised for five minutes to potentially inflict years of stress, hours of court appearances, and potential legal fees and fines on their parents. Children who experience discreet instances of suboptimal parenting aren\u2019t always aided by threatening their parents with stiff, potentially family-jeopardizing legal penalties. The risk of five or even 10 minutes in a temperate, locked car while mom shops is still a lot better than years in group homes and foster systems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/article\/index\/262746\/stop-helicopter-parenting-other-peoples-kids#axzz33uwcyYgu\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a> (and I think I\u2019m done now, the rest of my posts today will be\u2026 not about this kind of thing)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yeah: It\u2019s an odd way to \u201chelp\u201d a child who is unsupervised for five minutes to potentially inflict years of stress, hours of court appearances, and potential legal fees and fines on their parents. Children who experience discreet instances of suboptimal parenting aren\u2019t always aided by threatening their parents with stiff, potentially family-jeopardizing legal penalties. 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