What Alabamians Think About The Free Range Parenting Debate
In a scene from the film adaptation from of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mocking Bird,” Scout, Jim and Dill walk unaccompanied through town. Adults they pass just smile and nod. Now take into account these kids are ten, six and seven-years-old. Back then, that didn’t seem out of the ordinary. But recently, there’s been a rise in the number of parents getting in trouble with authorities for letting their kids walk or play alone outside. Nick Patterson is the editor of the weekly newspaper WELD, and he wrote about free range parenting in this week’s edition. Patterson tells WBHM’s Rachel Osier Lindley about this new—and old—parental philosophy.
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