How we'd look on Larry King  

I love this story by a mom who lets her nine-year-old take the subway home by himself and then can't believe that her friends want to turn her in for child abuse. I'm not sure if I would do the same thing with my daughter or not (I have several years to figure it out). But I agree with her justifications for it -- both the idea that our children often need more independence than surveillance and the rejection of today's media-induced extreme risk sensitivity.