Scott Alexander

XXth Street and YYth Street.

This decision is protected under California law based on the arguments we list at whyfreerangekidsarelegal.com.

This has been endorsed by such and such a lawyer, and we also talked it over with our local city council member, so-and-so, who agreed.

If you see our kid doing a specific dangerous thing or inconveniencing anyone else, please call us at xxxxx and we'll come over immediately.

Otherwise, please let them be.

Thank you, your neighbors.

P.S.

We are rich and extremely litigious.

Eventually, the kids in the bright orange shirts will become a local fixture among neighbors and cops alike and people will stop bothering us.

I have no idea if this will work, but it works in my head.

Still, age one is too early to try this.

My kids would still run into the street if we weren't there to stop them.

Did the mothers of the 1950s have some other trick for spending less time with their one-year-olds?

I can't find any data on this and can't imagine what the trick would be.

The wisdom, in quotes, of the moderns.

Kaplan seems to mostly accept this fate.

Quote, It would be amazing if childish children didn't do the same.

But what's wrong with that?

Electronic babysitters are a vital component of our cultural literacy.

I hope my kids grow up to know both The Simpsons and Shakespeare.