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> The game may also pose special risks to children as it encourages players to explore physical locations to win points. Oh the horror of children exploring th

> The game may also pose special risks to children as it encourages players to explore physical locations to win points. Oh the horror of children exploring the physical world. They're not safe unless kept inside!

wonks 10y ago
And we wonder why they keep gaining weight...
- jdavis703 10y ago
  Not only that but getting sick from preventable diseases like diabetes. Of course it doesn't help that the media makes kidnappings (or even zika) seem way more dangerous than our obesity epidemic.
  - AWildDHHAppears 10y ago
    Careful!
Someone1234 10y ago
You joke, but parents that do let their kids walk down to the park[0] or play outside[1] get a social services investigation. [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/free-range-family-again-in-spotlight-after-police-pick-up-kids-6-and-10/2015/04/13/30e2a2f4-e1f1-11e4-81ea-0649268f729e_story.html?tid=a_inl https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/free-range-family-again... [1] http://www.freerangekids.com/kids-play-in-backyard-while-mom-does-dishes-an-investigation-ensues/ http://www.freerangekids.com/kids-play-in-backyard-while-mom...
- duaneb 10y ago
  Wow, even in the early 00's I walked to and from school myself. Summers were about exploration. I was just taught strong "stranger danger" skills because it was preferable to my playing video games. I guess the Nintendo lobby got to the CPS.
- goodJobWalrus 10y ago
  > A Winnipeg mom was doing the dishes while her three kids, 10, 5 and 2 , played in their fenced-in backyard. A neighbor called to report “unattended” kids frolicking and Jacqui Kendrick was visited by a child protective services rep. The rep asked questions about what Jacqui’s own childhood was like, how she punished her kids, and where they slept. She even looked in Jacqui’s fridge. Oh crap, I thought Canada was better.
  - goda90 10y ago
    I wonder if reporting something like that is more of a spite thing than actual concern. Could the neighbor be annoyed with the children's volume? Did she do some unrelated thing that bothered them and this is revenge? Who in their right mind thinks that kids playing in a fenced backyard are in danger?
    - tn13 10y ago
      Haven't you followed the discussions on Facebook about the kid that jumped into Gorilla enclosure ? Did you read the horrible things that people said to the mother for not holding the kid's hand all the time ? I know from first hand experiences that in certain cities people and cops think of this as a concern.
    - goodJobWalrus 10y ago
      I wonder whether she actually used the word "frolicking" when reporting. I mean, imagine calling the police b/c someone is frolicking.
      - _asummers 10y ago
        "Yes officer, I'd like to report a suspicious frolic! It's like they're in some sort of jamboree."
    - DanBC 10y ago
      Maybe it's just someone who's aware that homicide is a leading cause of death of children, and that neglect at an abusive level is very common in childhood? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-34491753 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-34491753 > A mother has been jailed for five years after her toddler son drowned in a pond while she chatted on Facebook. > Claire Barnett pleaded guilty at Hull Crown Court to four charges of neglect. > The court heard the 31-year-old was on Facebook instead of supervising Joshua, two, while he was in the back garden. > Prosecutors said Barnett was told to cover the pond by relatives and had been warned by social services after two of her children were nearly run over while playing unsupervised. Or maybe this one? https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/nov/17/binge-mother-drugs-drink-cocaine https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/nov/17/binge-mother-drug... > Stark photographs have emerged of the home in which a 22-year-old woman abandoned her four children for 24 hours while she went on a drink and drugs binge. The pictures show their pitiable attempts to find some food in the family kitchen. There are countless others. If social services are only having a chat it doesn't seem too onerous. Obviously how they have that chat makes a difference, and it's a bad thing if they leap in with over restrictive "protective measures" in families that don't need it.
dragonwriter 10y ago
> Oh the horror of children exploring the physical world. They're not safe unless kept inside! That's actually a major factor of our current social and political context of the last several decades, driven by a media-fueled public misperception of a rising tide of stranger-perpetrated crimes against children (even though the actual rates of such crimes have been decreasing, not increasing, for decades -- even during much of the period where the general crime rate actually increasing.)

wonks 10y ago

And we wonder why they keep gaining weight...

jdavis703 10y ago
Not only that but getting sick from preventable diseases like diabetes. Of course it doesn't help that the media makes kidnappings (or even zika) seem way more dangerous than our obesity epidemic.
- AWildDHHAppears 10y ago
  Careful!

Someone1234 10y ago

You joke, but parents that do let their kids walk down to the park[0] or play outside[1] get a social services investigation. [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/free-range-family-again-in-spotlight-after-police-pick-up-kids-6-and-10/2015/04/13/30e2a2f4-e1f1-11e4-81ea-0649268f729e_story.html?tid=a_inl https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/free-range-family-again... [1] http://www.freerangekids.com/kids-play-in-backyard-while-mom-does-dishes-an-investigation-ensues/ http://www.freerangekids.com/kids-play-in-backyard-while-mom...

duaneb 10y ago
Wow, even in the early 00's I walked to and from school myself. Summers were about exploration. I was just taught strong "stranger danger" skills because it was preferable to my playing video games. I guess the Nintendo lobby got to the CPS.
goodJobWalrus 10y ago
> A Winnipeg mom was doing the dishes while her three kids, 10, 5 and 2 , played in their fenced-in backyard. A neighbor called to report “unattended” kids frolicking and Jacqui Kendrick was visited by a child protective services rep. The rep asked questions about what Jacqui’s own childhood was like, how she punished her kids, and where they slept. She even looked in Jacqui’s fridge. Oh crap, I thought Canada was better.
- goda90 10y ago
  I wonder if reporting something like that is more of a spite thing than actual concern. Could the neighbor be annoyed with the children's volume? Did she do some unrelated thing that bothered them and this is revenge? Who in their right mind thinks that kids playing in a fenced backyard are in danger?
  - tn13 10y ago
    Haven't you followed the discussions on Facebook about the kid that jumped into Gorilla enclosure ? Did you read the horrible things that people said to the mother for not holding the kid's hand all the time ? I know from first hand experiences that in certain cities people and cops think of this as a concern.
  - goodJobWalrus 10y ago
    I wonder whether she actually used the word "frolicking" when reporting. I mean, imagine calling the police b/c someone is frolicking.
    - _asummers 10y ago
      "Yes officer, I'd like to report a suspicious frolic! It's like they're in some sort of jamboree."
  - DanBC 10y ago
    Maybe it's just someone who's aware that homicide is a leading cause of death of children, and that neglect at an abusive level is very common in childhood? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-34491753 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-34491753 > A mother has been jailed for five years after her toddler son drowned in a pond while she chatted on Facebook. > Claire Barnett pleaded guilty at Hull Crown Court to four charges of neglect. > The court heard the 31-year-old was on Facebook instead of supervising Joshua, two, while he was in the back garden. > Prosecutors said Barnett was told to cover the pond by relatives and had been warned by social services after two of her children were nearly run over while playing unsupervised. Or maybe this one? https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/nov/17/binge-mother-drugs-drink-cocaine https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/nov/17/binge-mother-drug... > Stark photographs have emerged of the home in which a 22-year-old woman abandoned her four children for 24 hours while she went on a drink and drugs binge. The pictures show their pitiable attempts to find some food in the family kitchen. There are countless others. If social services are only having a chat it doesn't seem too onerous. Obviously how they have that chat makes a difference, and it's a bad thing if they leap in with over restrictive "protective measures" in families that don't need it.

dragonwriter 10y ago

> Oh the horror of children exploring the physical world. They're not safe unless kept inside! That's actually a major factor of our current social and political context of the last several decades, driven by a media-fueled public misperception of a rising tide of stranger-perpetrated crimes against children (even though the actual rates of such crimes have been decreasing, not increasing, for decades -- even during much of the period where the general crime rate actually increasing.)