Yesterday I told you how Zack Ran Away to visit his friend down the street.

What bothered me was the threat to call the police.

Is that what neighbors do now?

We resent looking out for each other’s kids to such a degree that we’d rather call the police than talk to a mother, maybe help her devise a way to fix a fence?

Americans are watching so much brain-polluting news that we believe there’s a gaggle of negligent mothers who let their babies wander the streets with no regard for their safety?

I’m sure that mother does exist, but most mothers simply didn’t think …read more

“Tracee, Zack is over at my house. A man brought him to the door and said he almost ran him over with his truck. He says if it happens again he’s going to call the police!”

“AACK! Zack What? How? Outside? I’m on my way!”

Evidently, my two-year-old son knows how to work the latch – and unhook the “security bungee cord” – on the gate.

He knew exactly where he was going too. He knows this little boy down the street that he rarely gets to play with. He was deliberately headed to his house, and when the man found …read more