Lenore Skenazy

It should not go from there to any kind of investigation.

So that's a great law.

And hopefully it will be passed in all 50 states pretty darn soon.

But more generally, I think we have to do this grace thing where we see kids outside and we don't think like, where's the mom?

And we don't think, somebody once wrote and said, well, so if your child is on a skateboard and they fall down in front of my house, I have to help them?

And it's like,

Yeah, you do.

If you see them, if you have a bandaid, you know, you have a phone, you do have to help them.

And I don't think of that as babysitting.

I don't think of that as like some horrible mom who thrust her entire responsibility on you.

I think of that as being part of a community.

You're at the park.

you know, a kid needs a Band-Aid, you give them a Band-Aid, not because it's an imposition, but because it's nice.

You know, you're nice and it's nice to be nice to a kid.

You hope that somebody's nice to your kid or to you when you're older and you fall down.

And so I think just giving everybody the benefit of the doubt, as opposed to thinking the worst about them, that, you know, any guy at the park is a predator.

Any kid at the park alone is, you know, somebody who's neglected by a

just giving people the benefit of the doubt is just a great way to live.

It makes your life more fun.

It makes you see the world in a better way.