my mom dropped me and my older brother off about a good 20 minutes walk from home when i was about 16 and he was 17... we enjoyed it :} if we were younger, i'm sure i'd enjoy it too... as long as i'm with my brother.

parents now adays need to stop acting like their kids are fragile. I live in Las Vegas, and trust me if i had the opporunity i would leave my kids on the side of the road. and they are teenagers. the only problem i would have is they would find their way home.

I agree -- they don't have the correct option. Some of these people writing clearly haven't been stuck in the car with their children while they bicker and fight. I made my oldest son get out of the car when he was 13 because he wouldn't leave his brother alone and he is now 23 and still laughs about that day. Children aren't made of glass and they won't break if they aren't handled with kid gloves. HOWEVER, I would probably not leave my daughter on the side of the road because it's just too dangerous for girls to be left alone. Having said that, I don't live in White Plains, NY. I live in a big city in California.

Mental abnormalities is a different situation. There are different expectations for behavior and self-sufficiency when talking about kids with autism.

It's one thing leaving perfectly normal healthy children to walk a couple of miles home (but the point is she wasn't going to make them walk home at all--she was going back to get them), but you would totally be bashed for leaving a helpless austistic kid alone. That's just common sense.

Would anyone leave their autistic child for throwing up everyday, not being able to communicate, or repeating sayings? Your comment is not related, I'm sorry.

I don't care if it was 10 feet from home!! Kids get kidnapped out of their own front yards. You people need to grow up and realize that kids will be kids and that they fight sometimes, but nobody should ever leave their child out for the sickos to kidnap or rape. That mother would have felt awful had that happened to one of those children. The state should take her children away. She is a lawyer, not an uneducated moron- She should know better.

everyone is forgetting the other part here. kids aren't nearly in as much danger as you are all lead to believe by society. please. so you don't let your kids play out in the front yard? really?abductions are no more prevelent than 30 years ago, you just hear about them instantaniously, so now janie can't play in the front yard anymore. perspective people. how about teaching your children to be aware and smart, not scared. 10 and 12 is not too young. and all this positive parenting crap doesn't work, why do you think kids these days are so disrespectful? because we are now told that we should reason with a 3 year old and it just goes downhill from there. don't tell me that a little fear and intimidation doesn't go a long way. look at what the government and media has done to all of you. c'mon people, claim your lives back, raise your kids, and get to know your neighbors. it's a better way. really

It isn't a big deal and this is clearly a bunch of Liberal CRAP. I have 5 sons and a 12 year old daughter.... and most days from the time they were 7 and 8 years old (as long as they were together) they would ride bikes or walk and go to the ice house and play through our neighborhoods well at 3 mile distances. I grew up and left in the morning and my parents wouldnt even see me until supper time. I would walk 5 miles to a friends house. At 10 and 12 years I used to work and not becasue I had to. Quit defending kids for being brats and lets begin allowing parents to be parents again. The mother did nothing wrong. NOTHING. The reason we are in this recession is because kids today are so coddled and have become major users who want everything handed to them with no responsibility whatsoever. They even live at home until they are 25 and 30 and older! This is proven research. Let kids grow up! Behave or walk! 3 miles....Big deal. Kids get kidnapped out of their front lawns...yeah...well, kids are killed (and potentially endangered) in car accidents ....what...next don't let them drive? Higher statistic of kids killed in car accidents than kids kidnapped walking 3 miles from home in groups of 2. That statistic is like .0000001. She didnt endanger them and too bad the mom was arrested.

"CRAZIES AROUND EVERY CORNER BOOGALAHBOO!!1"

No. There are not, in fact, crazies around every corner. There are hardly any of them.

There's a much higher chance of dying in a car accident than you do being --BOO!-KIDNAPPED!!-BOO!!-- from on your front doorstep.

Stacy, when your kids are 18 and they can't even apply their own deodorant because you've kept them infantilized, unable to learn on their own -- do not come crying to me. Go crying to My Kid Has Autism mom, instead. But don't expect pity from her, because she has an excuse.

Kids need to be OUTSIDE to LEARN. And they don't learn from you plopping them in front of the TV. They learn by running around, getting skinned knees, and discovering ON THEIR OWN how to handle situations. You just can't buy a DVD for that!

I let my 12 year old son take the city bus home from school every day. Guess what - he's never been molested, or bothered, or even scared. He can spot weirdos and knows how to avoid them. He can make himself a sandwich when he gets home, too. He even brushes his teeth without me reminding him. Am I proud? Do I brag? NO, because this is NORMAL behavior. He doesn't get a gold star and a new iPod for doing what's expected! Unlike all the completely insufferable BRATS who he goes to school with. Frankly, I think they're emotionally three grades behind him - and that they're bad influences.

So Stacy, and all you other parents who would DARE take me to task for teaching my son how to be a responsible, independent ADULT - step off. Turn in your parents badges, because you're not producing adults. You're producing infants in the bodies of teenagers. And CPS should come take YOUR kids away.

BTW, don't we have some gay people who seem pretty darned responsible, and who want kids? I say they would do a far better job than you are.

people like you have ruined the current generation. kids are so "entitled" and spoiled and rude today....instead of raising confident, strong, self-reliant kids, we've raised a generation of impolite little monsters..... CHEERS TO THAT MOM!!! Jeers to you.

PAMDARED-

I'll bet your a parent of one of those disrespectful, sniveling little brats that scream and cry and carry on in the grocery store, huh? Kids these days need to learn that there are consequences to thier actions, they need to learn that there are boundries and to respect others- failure to do so makes for pretty lousy adults. Way to go MOM!

all the sickos out there these days....

WTF... there have been sickos out for a very long time, and many of them are relatives or people the kids know.

Did something change in the last 30 years? whats different from 100 years ago and now? More sickos or just sickos in the spotlight. They have always been around.

And I totally agree, this generation is rude, disrespectful, lazy, and have no conception of concequences of their actions. OH and get this our government protects them and will try to ruin parents lives over kids not liking being told they can't flunk out of highschool, they can't have a drivers lisense until they prove they are responsible enough to get it. Society is going in the toilet.

What have those girls just been taught.... If I don't like the rules or the punishment for my actions I can just go whine to the police and get any with everything. You are absolutely right, the children will be scared for life.....

My only criticism of the mom here is that it's too bad she didn't have better control of her kids before this. I guess I inherited the Mom's "Evil Eye" from my mom. All four of us kids knew that Mom would give you this look and you were done. I was never spanked (though I did get grounded), but it was the look that stopped most of the behavior. My kids say the same of me. All I had to do was look at them and let them know that their behavior wasn't acceptable.

I'd recommend some classes/therapy for the family. Obviously the girls need to learn some respect for their mom and their mom needs to learn how to assert her authority in a more "acceptable" way. The dad also needs to back up the mom. It's a family issue.

Classes/therapy to assert her authority? When I was a youngster I (and all of my friends) would have had the same treatment and a thick ear to boot. Sounds like she asserted her authority pretty well to me. No wonder we're rearing a generation of self entitled brats who know they can get away with anything! Crazies on every corner? The only crazies I ever see on street corners are kids with attitudes.

I'd guess that your sister had "Issues" long before she was a teenager or your parents wouldn't have felt the need to take her to an orphanage.

This is typical enabling mentality, making excuses for someone else's bad behavior.

You are my hero! I totally agree; and I wonder where all these "perfect" parents are while their kids are screaming in grocery stores. I spanked my kids, and I did put them out the car when it was necessary. I never had to leave them...but they were out the door. My kids are well adjusted loving kids, and we actually sit and laugh at their behaviors at that age. They are 19 and 21 now, and they are great kids, in spite of their mother:-)

A.H.-Engineer - you obviously don't have children. There is a big difference between "bickering" and being "out of control".

You are so full of it...what a stupid comment.. you don't know anything about being a parent.... I know you're can't a parent....

What kid doesnt fight with their siblings? I highly doubt that these kids learned to bicker with each other by watching their mother and her siblings. Children do need to be disciplined and she didnt beat them, yes leaving the 10-y.o. was a bit young but the 12-y.o. could have walked home. Stop trying to blame the parent for normal childhood antics.

A H engineer and the rest of you bleeding hearts,,, i would bet that those children have walked that distance before either playing or going to friends house and no one would think anything about it. but because a parent makes a kid walk home because they are fighting,, give me a break,,,, and yes to all of you mambie pambie idoits that think spanking is wrong.. i didnt say beating i said a spanking,, i think some of you need to be spanked. That is the problem you individuals dont want to take responsiblilty for your actions in raising your children,, and then when they get older we as law enforcement or teachers are expected to fix and clean up your messes and you then want to know what i did wrong in raising them. Well the responsiblity starts at home.. and yes i have children and they are physcially and mentally well and they know there bounderies when it comes to dis respect and when they are told to stop doing something that is unacceptable behavior,,, So to you parnets that think that this is all bad,,, you better get a grip or you are going to be suprised,,,

A.H.-Engineer - Unfortunately, the popular notion of corporeal punishment equates the practice with child abuse. Nothing could be further from the truth. The failure to teach respect and set boundaries is far more "abusive" to children.

I was raised by immigrant, Depression-era, Italian grandparents. They weren't good at "negotiating" obedience or correct behavior, but they never failed to let me know that they loved me (though they always made sure I knew who was in charge...and it wasn't me!)

Marge-458048 : I have 3 actually. They are strong willed, very bright, and never act like this. Your assumption I do not have kids is a classic example of ignorance in parenting, most probably yours.

By the way, in case you want even more information before you flip off with another moronic assumption, all 3 are boys, all 3 are ADD, all 3 are spaced about equally, and all 3 support each other and act respectfully to their teachers, their mother, and me.

Lead by example, and learn how to be a parent, then maybe you wont have to deal with "Out of control" children.

There are too many excuses for kids bad behavior these days ... ADD is just one of them. If they are not well behaved then she, and every other parent, has a right to reasonably discipline them ... not abuse, just discipline. Just because a parent has a child does not give that child the right to torment the parent!

Ah yes, see AH engineer has 3 ADD kids, his are never out of control because his kids are bad because of ADD so just drug them and they will be good they will be zombies but they will be good!

Oh we get it now AH Engineer, you have 3 sons that are not bad, they are impaired with ADD. You would not ever discipline them, you just drug them into zombie-like obedience.

Yes! I instilled discipline in my son early by "whippin" his butt when he needed it. Now he is a healthy, happy, good young man. His teachers, principal, neighbors, family and friends all say that I have a great kid. He is by no means perfect, but his respects adults and tries to stay out of trouble. He knows that I am the parent and in charge. That came from showing him who has the power, early.

The mother did nothing wrong in my opinion. I'm sure that the girls learned a valuable lesson and the next time they will show their mother some respect. Teenagers are the worst people to deal with. Let's be glad that all she did was leave them in a nice neighborhood around people. It could have been worst. Does anyone remember Yates, Smith and now that monster Casey Anthony.

I agree with Cindi0510. I have 3 children and one is ADD but I did everything possible before considering drugs. Even on drugs he's a handful but I wouldn't have him any other way. I see too many parents have their kids labeled as ADD and it is really just lack of disciplining. Usually these parents "reason" with their children because children are very rational & logical. Of course, when the kids tell them to F off the parents say he must be ADD. Idiots.

Cindy-

Way to be even more judgmental than most people on this board. If someone doesn't smack their kids/isn't willing to leave them on the side of the road, they MUST be doing it wong! Moron.

Cindy : How interesting that you assume my children need drugs to behave. In reality I give them time to have their energetic outbursts in constructive ways, so that when they reach times of stress, they can deal with the issues in a calm manor.

Perhaps you are the one that should be medicated so that you can reach some kind of social norm?

I made a promise to myself when my immature parents put me on Ritalin when I was a child that I would give my children the choice, when they came of age to be able to understand that choice. Did you know that you are barred from military service if you have taken Ritalin? Why in the hell would I limit my child's future because I think they need drugs.

Look folks, I really don't have to justify anything I say on an internet forums, however you should take a long hard look at your parenting skills if you are having problems with a child. If you start from the moment they are born, support and nurture them, choose non-violent ways of disciplining them, you are not going to have problems.

If you are abandoning your children, spanking them when they are bad, yelling at them when you think they have done wrong, how do you think they will act to deal with the situation? Be the adult, and get some education.

A.H. - Yes, please get your wife to proofread your comments.
"Well manored" means they live in a nice house. You mean well-mannered.

Yes, because an electrical engineering physicist is an expert on parenting advice...

Thank you MOMFROMSA.

"Yes! I instilled discipline in my son early by "whippin" his butt when he needed it. Now he is a healthy, happy, good young man."

I know a guy who did that to his wife when they first married. They have a great marriage now.

Ahahahaahahahaha. Despite myself, I find that hilarious.

Melissa, you've been watching too many horror movies. There's no more "crazies" now then there were, they're just overpublicised until poor gullible folks like you live in total paranoid fear.

Sad... you would have had her arrested? SAD - I'm sure you didn't mind the free day care or car pool though did you!

I was raised in prairie country where the summer temperatures were frequently 100 degrees and sometime more than that -- we spent our days walking around in that heat. We walked to my aunt's one of whom lived 6 miles in one direction and the other 2 miles in the other direction and thought nothing of it. My only question would be, "was he in serious danger in that 1 mile" -- if not then your mom was right and you should have supported her. No reason why a grandmother should have to deal with a "disagreeable" 10 year old. If he hadn't learned any manners by that age, he's probably a disagreeable 18 year old now -- so sad. When I was that age, children were expected to behave and we did.

I disagree with what the grandmother did . . . it's not her child. If the 10 year old was being "disagreeable," she could have driven one mile further and dropped the child off at his mother's work. The grandmother was entrusted with the child's custody and safety and should have returned the child to his mother if she couldn't handle him. If my mother did something like that to my child, we would not have much contact with her either.

I am sorry but your mother was right. When I was a kid I played all day in 90 degree weather. Children have to learn that they can't be disrespectful. Too many times we baby our kids and let the government dictate how to raise our children and we wonder why so many have behavior problems. I am a strong believer in "spare the rod, spoil the child". Your son was not hurt and a mile is not far to walk. He probably would have learned a lesson, but you chose to mess that up by babying him. It is time out for the children who curse at and are disrespect their parents. Unruly children become unruly adults.

I'm sure this kid now sneaks out at night to smoke pot. Poor little precious.

hopefully you started parenting better, otherwize other people in your sons life might make drastic choices like that... he must have been a total brat for his own grandmother to feel thats necessary. so sick of hearing how undeserving the child is... bull@!$%#. parents are to blame if their children are that rotten. no one else. Kudos... grandma!

I agree!! so sad!! but I am sure you are a "perfect" parent so you do have the right to never speak to your mother again!!! what a sad, sad person you are!! I feel sorry for your son....and not because of his grandmother!!!

I would totally support my mother if she did something like that with my kids. There is absolutely no reason for her to put up with my kids misbehaving, or being "disagreeable" especially if she's doing me a favor! And walking one mile in the summer heat would only have been the beginning of the unpleasant aftermath of their misbehaving. Just wait till we get home!

i agree ,, the grand mother didnt do anything wrong,,,, didnt hurt the child to walk.. and i bet it wasnt a mile,,, either,, i bet it was few blocks.. and of course some liberal mommie saying oh my goodness, my poor child,,, if it would of been my grand mother she would of paddle my tail for that kind of behavior and would of been paddled by my mom or dad when they found out. Cant blame the children if the parents dont care....they are too busy for the kids,,

Grandmother should have driven him to moms workplace, handed him back to her with the provision not to dump him on anyone else until she can teach him how to behave! My 4 would never have behaved that way with their grandparents, or anyone else, as they were taught to respect their elders.

Wow! a whole mile? and that cost him a Grandmother who loved him enough to give him boundries. Huh, what a sad and horrible story.

You must not have had much of a relationship with her to start with to use something this small to end your relationship with her. I guess your son got a great lesson that day, be a baby and get what you want.

Awww... poor kid, had to walk a mile in 90 degree heat... give me a break. Way to go Grandma, trying to raise the kid right.

My brother took my 11 year old daughter to disney land and thought nothing of letting her wander around and get on rides by herself. She later told me that she got lost and went to a mother with a child to find her way.... Of course I now have no contact with my brother. In light of the Cantu case...how would any MOTHER let thier child out of their sight. My brother's behavior was disgraceful and abusive... and any parent that is a professional who resolves DISPUTES for a living that does this to her children should be disbarred.

I also say - Kudos for Grandma, she did what she felt was the right thing to do. Interesting what another poster said I bet the Mom of the son appreciated ?!?!the fact that Grandma was giving of her time to watch the son. Boundaries, rules and respect are important to the development of the child it's what forms the character of the child. Again, way to go Grandma.

Grandma had no right to do that. Kid's not hers--if she really has that much of a problem with it, she should say she won't babysit anymore.

I am a grandmother to 15 all under the age of 12..... one 4 year old lives with me. She has boundaries just like her dad and his brothers did at that age. She is outgoing and happy go lucky but she knows that when Grandma says no or knock it off and she continues the behavior she gets to face the consequences. I am with grandma here.

Growing up it was done to me and my sister on a trip to see my grandmother when we were 5 and 7.... dad threatened to pullover and yank us out of the car if we didn't stop arguing and fighting.... we didn't and he did. Now the back roads of Utah after sunset gets dark really fast and there are no lights and he pointed in the genral direction of grandma's house and said we could walk if we didn't want to stop fighting. Then he drove off. We began fighting about whose fault it was that we were in this situation. 15 minutes later ( a whole lot longer to a a 5 and 7 year old) we saw headlights coming towards us.... it was dad and he said if we thought we were done arguing anf fighting we could ride to grandmas.... lesson learned by crossing boundaries we learned there were consequences we had to deal with. Today my sister and I are best friends and we don't fight over trival things any longer. we might disagree but that is our right as sisters and best friends..... we turned out pretty darn good. GO GRANDMA!!!!

and as for having nothing much to do with your mother you need to mend fences with her before its too late and you no longer can. I am sure as a child you probably did some things that caused her many tears. Its time to mend fences and become friends again, because if she passes before you can you will beat yourself up everyday for the rest of your life for not doing so when you had the chance.

Heaven forbid, a child walk a mile in 90 degree weather!!!! Why he might perish!! We are raising a nation full of wimps.

Been there ! did that only it was me and my sister who got left behind... we were told to quit bickering and dad threatened to pull the car over, and yank us out we didn't and he did. we were 5 and 7 on a road trip to see our grandparents in Utah. we lived in Salt Lake City at the time and were heading to Cedar City. On the back roads of utah after sunset it gets dark quickly. He pulled us out and pointed in the genral direction of grandmas and said we could walk or we could ride.... 15 minutes later we were in the car and the lesson learned that crossing boundaries and pushing limits had their conseqences. Today my Sister and I are best friends and have our own children. I am a grandmother of 15 all under the age of 12... and while I wouldn't leave any of them behind in todays age and society they know that grandma means what she says and will back it up with the action needed. I am with grandma.

meanwhile, please mend fences with your mother before you don't have that opportunity. You will never forgive yourself if she passes and you don't.

You have issues.

OK, all you people who think this is somehow alright. You have no idea what can happen out there when a child is alone, and you obviously lead a sheltered childhood, in which you were never disciplined, and now you don't know how to treat your own children. THIS IS NOT THE TIME WHEN WE GREW UP WHEN DIFFERENT THINGS COULD BE DONE! The world is a lot different now and some things that used to be OK, are not anymore. Wake up!

Well, you got to be kidding, you can always turn the tables. One day when your mom is with you and says something disagreeable, you can abandon HER in 90 degree weather and make her have a nice walk home to think it over.

OMG! Yougottobekidding, you're one of those spoiled little kids that grew up aren't you! I'll bet your mom spared the rod and discipline on you growing up, huh? Well I'm sure your son is a strong, independent young adult now, right? And yet you're still punishing your mother, GROW UP and stop being disagreeable you idiot!

Mike627, I'm not sure what statement you're making, except you've bought into the fear the media has been selling us all these years.

OMG!! Do you really belive your mom of all people would hurt your son. Dont people get it? Grandparents love there grandchildren more than anything else in this world. If she felt he needed a spanking, he must have. And from your coment. I would just assume he takes after his mom.

Mike627, you're excessively paranoid. The world, and all it's very real dangers, hasn't really changed much, but our response to it has.

I have read quite a bit of the e-mails but none hit me as hard as what you said about you hardly speaking to your own mother. I use to walk three miles to school every morning and three miles back home that's six miles per day. Thank God for the trees along the road. You should be ashame of yourself to let the public know that you hardly talk to your mother because of your brat of a son, if you had trained him to show respect to his grandmother she wouldn't have kicked him out of the car and by your actions now, this just makes him aprove of himself that he was right to be disrespectful to her. They say the apple does not fall far from the tree. Remember he is going to treat you the same way you are treating your mother. Shame on you.

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Here here! Growing up, my aunt used to put my cousins out when they misbehaved in the car. We were still in the neighborhood, however, so they didn't have far to go. But back then us kids were made to mind our elders or else...and I'm happy to say a few spankings and a walk home or two hasn't emotionally scarred me at all. I'm a functioning member of society.

I can think of at least two occasions where I got left in this manner by my biological mother. I think I was ten or eleven and I never felt a greater sense of abandonment in my life when it occured. I can tell you after it did, I ended up in the river that day. A minor suicide attempt. I was only ten.

I have 7 kids and I've booted a few of them out and went around the block. Made them walk about a mile before I picked them up again. None of them utter a nasty word all the way to our destination. Parents need to quit indulging and coddling their teens. They are in for a rude awakening later in life, it isn't all about them.

I'm with you. My parents did this with my brother. He never pulled that nonsense again. I did it once with my son, only when he realized I was serious, he stopped. Never behaved that way again. To top it all off, he's now a responsible adult and we have a great relationship with him.

GrandmaO,

I agree with you completely! I was raised by parents that had a zero tolerance policy for disrespect and a 100% policy for taking responsibility for your own actions. I also served for 10 years in the Army and they have a high expectation of taking responsibility for your own actions as well. :0)

Three miles from home may have been a bit much for a 10- and 12-year old, but depending on the severity of the fighting, the length of time it had continued, whether or not they had been warned or not...I think mom was certainly justified in her actions. Come on...they were only three miles from home. I've made my daughter walk the 2-2.5 miles from school to home, after repeated times of missing the bus. You know what she learned? She never missed the bus again.

This story sounds to me like it's about a couple of spoiled little rich brats that get everything they want and never have to deal with any consequences. Trust me, it would never have gotten to that level in my vehicle. Unfortunately, the only thing these two girls are going to learn from this incident is that their mother has almost no ability to enforce discipline and they will hang this incident over her head, every time she tries.

Our society has gone to hell in a handbasket.

What I think is funny is that everyone is acting as if a 12 year old and 10 year old are in capable of walking. It was downtown in an elite area--not filled with crime! I thought it was amazing that the 12 year old left the 10 year old! My son knows that when it is him and his sister, he does not leave her side---no matter what! She ran the minute she saw her mother parked up the road (something left out in the article and is relevant). More importantly, both children are old enough to be able to control their behavior. They made a choice. Now the police are disarming the parent and the kids learn that mommy has no authority. That is a shame.

BTW---statistically the kids are more at risk for being hurt by someone they know (90%) as opposed to some stranger that would see them walking.

It is interesting that the media left out the part of the mom parking up the road. Probably left it out because to sensationalize the article and generate more response with that part missing. She may have parked too far away that they didn't see her. She should have stopped where they could see her. Another point that may need to be addressed -- the older girl looks rather selfish by leaving her younger sister -- but they were fighting -- so probably continued to fight after they got out of the vehicle. On a long cross country trip, my son & daughter (age 14 & 10 at the time) were arguing about something. I did pull over and make them get out, but I only moved a few feet, watching them in the mirrors the whole time, then stopped and let them get back in. The were good the rest of the 500 miles. There are times when all the discussing and reasoning, even yelling has no impact. I do not think she should have been arrested, maybe some family counseling, but not arrested. The girls are old enough to have some accountability for their actions.

Yay!! I've done the same as GrannieO. Children need to be held accountable for their actions and those that are usually grow up to be loving,caring, RESPONSIBLE adults. I've also used other creative methods for getting a point across to my children who now have children of their own and are calling asking "what would you have done Mom?" I wasn't always right but children don't come with a handbook and you need to use common sense and caring in dealing with them. You CAN NOT reason with a two year old and expect them to understand grownup discussions. Deal with them in a manner that they can understand that you love them but that you decide what the rules of acceptable behaviour are and you will have mostly well behaved, loving children in return.

Applause. I have done the same thing with a smart mouthed 15 year old. He walked 1.5 miles home. Didn't hurt him a bit. When do we teach our kids to be responsible for there actions? Why are we waiting for them to grow up before they learn to behave. Then society says " oh you have no manners,cause your parents misbehaved or weren't good parents" Cause there parents were afraid of going to Jail....I see thousands of young men and women every month who have just left home and joined the military. They WANT discipline. Discipline makes them feel safe. Many have never been held accountable for there actions. My children are now grown well adjusted adults who are able to take care of themselves at 18 and 21. Much younger then Most young adults who are still either attatched to the pocket book of there parents. Both have said Thank you to me for enforcing the rules. Hope she gets her kids back. This is a waste of your tax money. How many parents even know were there kids are most days.. Are you sure?

You're amazed that the 12-year-old left the 10-year-old, but it doesn't bother you that the mom left them both? Like mother, like daughter.

Maybe the kids learned a lesson. The mother should defnitely not be punished for trying to disclipine her kids. She could have beaten them but she chose to let them walk. I walked 2 miles each way to school in snow, rain, or heat and I was only 6 years old. What lazy teenager can't walk two or three miles. Bravo and thumbs up to the mom. As for the kids, they need their lazy butts spanked for turning her in.

obviously, because the one who hurt them this time was their own mother. do you know how many instances of kidnapping, rape and murder happen so close to home. and please give me a break saying its not a high crime rate city.....there's still crime and most of the time when you hear of horrible stories of rape and murder and orgie frickin fests it happens in the smallest of cities, with the least crime rate. and these days is it not only ok to make two preteenage GIRLS walk home alone but its also ok for kids their age to have sex these days and get OTC morning after pills so who cares if they have to walk alone, i mean they probably eat dinner alone and watch themselves after school.

I'm the single adoptive mom of one 10 year child and have never had any car issues with her. However, as the eldest of 7 children my father once dropped off 2 of my my brothers on a country road. We used to go for Sunday drives in the country - all 9 of us. My brothers were misbehaving and so he pulled over and let 2 of them out and drove away. We came back to my sobbing brothers about 15 minutes later. My father told them the next time they'd have to walk home. That was the end of arguing in the car.

As a P.S., when my daughter was misbehaving as a toddler in a grocery store one day I just picked her up, apologized to the store manager for leaving the cart with groceries, and left the store. That was the last time she misbehaved publicly.

Haha I used to work at toys r us shortly after high school and wondered what possesed parents to torture their kids around christmas time bringing them there and not allowing them toys. Most of the children would be screaming by the time they checked out and I would think "Cant you shut them up?'...then one day I realized there were probley many people in the grocery store looking and my three kids thinking the same thing. Now my kids are 11 and up and I see little kids being a pain for mom and laugh. It only takes one time of removal from a store...they seem to get it the next time.