I will always remember my first firearm. I was 12 years old, and the firearm was a Marlin model 98 .22 long rifle. The rifle-fed from a tubular magazine in the butt stock. It had been my Uncle’s, as had ...
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80-Year-Old Man Greets Child In Grocery, Gets Visit From Police
Simply talking to a strange child in public can lead to a police visit in Australia. An 80-year-old man was stopped by a plainclothes police officer and then visited at his home by two detectives — simply because he chatted ...
Read More »10-Year-Old Shopped Alone At Lego Store. So Police Arrested His Mom.
A mother was arrested and charged Sunday for letting her 10-year-old son shop alone at a toy store. Jia Fan was charged with child endangerment for leaving her son alone at the Lego Store in the Eastview Mall in Victor, ...
Read More »State Defeats Bill That Would Have Let Kids RIDE BICYCLES ALONE
Leaving a child unsupervised outside for a few minutes can still be illegal in Arkansas. A state legislative committee rejected a bill this month that would have prevented parents from being charged with neglect for leaving a child outside alone. ...
Read More »Shock: Police Seize 4 Children Simply Because They Were Spanked
Just the suspicion of spanking can lead to a police raid and seizure of children by social workers in at least one Western nation. A couple in Norway had four children and a baby taken away because they spanked ...
Read More »Frankincense And Myrrh: Modern-Days Uses For The Wise Men’s Gifts
Most of us are familiar with the gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh that the wise men brought to young Jesus. However, have you ever thought about why the wise men might have brought those particular gifts in honor of ...
Read More »How To Raise A Child Who Loves Hunting
I will never forget my first hunt. The leaves had begun to fall from the trees and the brisk fall air of Western Upstate New York was crisp and smelled of the harvest. I had been invited by a friend ...
Read More »Innocent Couple Shocked At What Happens When CPS Worker Goes Rogue
A state social worker deliberately tormented her neighbors with false child abuse claims – claims that resulted in multiple law enforcement visits to the home, police say. Social worker Beth A. Bond and her fiancé were charged with six counts ...
Read More »3-Year-Old Deemed ‘Potential Terrorist,’ Placed Under Gov’t Care
A 3-year-old child in London has been labeled a “potential terrorist” and placed under social workers’ care and police surveillance because of his or her family’s religious beliefs. The unidentified child was one of 1,069 Londoners placed in an “anti-extremism ...
Read More »5 Self-Reliant Skills Every Child Should Learn This Summer
In our modern world, parenting is too often done in between rigidly scheduled activities and when children can be pried away from smart phones, laptops and video games. In the midst of all of that, how do you raise a ...
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