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The studio audience showered me with hisses, nuh-uh s, and boos as I answered questions about my parenting. I was on an episode of a nationally syndicated talk show that aired on March 3, 2020, just weeks before parenting became a fuller-time job for millions of American women.
My sin? I let my 10-year-old ride public transportation without me. I reassured those at the show s taping that the regular drivers and riders of my daughter s route would be there to help in an emergency that she and/or her travel companions two other fifth-graders couldn t handle. Mel Robbins, the life-coach-turned-TV-personality who hosted the show, responded with a chilling judgment: You re outsourcing your parenting.