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Illness. allen says he believes the fight against isis is at a stalemate. he s only held that position for a year now. we understand he ll be taking a job at the brookings institution this fall. a school bus driver is now being blamed for the crash that sent a bus full of elementary school children crashing into a pond in florida. this as we get the first listen at some of those 911 calls. what is your emergency? a bus lost control. it s in the water with the kids. please help! that is 54-year-old lenore accused of careless driving. she was hired at the start of the school year despite having a careless driving creditation. on his record, rather. he has since been fired. everybody on board that bus did manage to get out safely. seattle seahawk fans want their star quarterback russell wilson to break up with his girlfriend so much so that they started a go fund me page to bring about a split. ....
Said why don t you let me find my own way home. and we made sure he knew how to read a map. he speaks the language. we re all on the subways all the time including him. he s very familiar with it. there s safety in numbers 6 million people ride the subway every day and altogether it seemed like if he was ready, we were ready. and i wouldn t have let him do it if i thought it was a crazy, dangerous thing, i let him do it because i thought it was a normal part of life. what do you make of that attempt to give a child independence lenore s decision to let her 9-year-old ride the new york city subway alone? i don t think we re overestimating danger. i think we re underpreparing our children to respond to potentially dangerous situations. growing up none of us were really proper-educated or informed as to what to do stranger danger is somewhat of a myth. but i think that overall parents today are in a certain amount of denial that they don t while they may be helicopter parents, while ....
Kid they re not necessarily preparing them for the world that can at times be dangerous and i think that if you don t properly educate and inform the parent as to how to teach that kid personal security responsibility that kid s not going to be able to navigate the world responsibly. putting your child on the subway, you know is a leap in faith. as long as you have taken that kid on that subway a number of different times, prepared them for different situations, you know be able to react to certain situations okay. but at the same time there are too many parents out there that aren t doing that properly. and if you re not educating your kids if you don t know what the risks are, and you re not properly informed yourself then it is inevitable that something bad is going to happen to you and your family. if you don t have a home security system today, in my opinion that s being irresponsible. quick final thought, lenore? i think we should all prem our kids for the world and one of th ....
Their kids and their community. i m just parenting the way i was parented and the way that almost every adult i know was parented. no parent should have to go through that at all for trusting their child, their community and their own parenting. reporter: lenore has championed so-called free range parenting for years. in 2009, she let her son take the new york city subway alone. he was 9 then. now he s 15. you turned out okay? i m alive. after i got home, i was ecstatic. i felt like i was on top of the world and felt very brave and that i could do anything. reporter: plenty of parents say it is down right irresponsible. a 10-year-old should never be in charge of a 6-year-old. any kind of thing could happen to a child at that age. reporter: they are vowing for the right to raise their kids how they please. raising independent children, responsible children and giving them freedom that i enjoyed is a ....
Still. i don t need it cut. you are i am not going to choke on it. the boy finally used the knife because he was a guest of lenore s tv show and lenore let him use it. there s an assumption any time a child is unsupervised they are in danger. she knows how to use the oven. she can make pancakes better than i can. i let her completely run lose in the kitchen. paris friends envy her experiences. what do they say? oh that sounds so fun. the free range kids say they are more confident. you know where everything is. i like being free range adults. coming up the tiger mom and the most important things your kids need to succeed. if i ate 100 marshmallows i ....