Showing posts with label stranger dangers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stranger dangers. Show all posts

Parents' back-to-school concerns: Should kids ride the bus or walk to school?

Nervous about kids going back to school? A big cause of back-to-school anxiety for parents is transportation. Should kids walk to school? Are school buses safe? I drive to school; how do I juggle schedules? Here are parenting tips on coordinating school transportation. This article explores considerations for walkers, bus riders, parent pick-up and bikers. Parents' back-to-school concerns: Should kids ride the bus or walk to school?

TSA Lacks Common Sense in Pat-Down of 4-Year-Old Girl

Transportation Security Administration officials are defending agents at a Kansas airport against criticism that they traumatized a 4-year-old girl with a pat-down, says the Associated Press. Isabella Brademeyer and her mother Michelle had passed through security scanners, but then the child hugged her grandmother, Lori Croft, who hadn't yet cleared security. TSA agents told mom to grab the child or they would close the airport. A little reactionary and melodramatic, but that's not the worst part. TSA Lacks Common Sense in Pat-Down of 4-Year-Old Girl