Joyful Momma at TEACH

I forgot to post...this past Monday, I again posted on the TEACH Magazine Blog about crazy laws...

The irony was that shortly after I posted this another "case in point" happened. My younger children (ages 9-11) were outside playing with the neighbors, riding bikes and such on a quiet side street nearby, and when they saw a car coming they got out of the street. The car it turns out was the policeman in the area, and he gave them each gift certificates to McDonalds that say, "I was caught being safe" because they had the common sense to get out of the road when a car was coming. In some ways, sure, that was pretty nice, but in other ways it was like, "I was caught using my brain!" LOL My kids even thought it was pretty "duh" (one said...if I get out of the way, i get a free ice cream cone, and if I don't, then I am in the hospital ;))...sort of like, in my post over at TEACH, where I mention the announcement over the loudspeakers about not letting your children play on the forklifts at a large lumber warehouse. No, really?

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