I haven’t seen a Block Parent sign in a window in years, offering a safe haven if a child should ever find themselves in a dangerous situation. If I tell a child not to push another (or mine), I’m often faced with the child mouthing off to me or a parent saying I’ve stepping out of line. The advice of our mothers and grandmothers (who managed to raise a lot more children than most of us) is brushed off and seen as cruel, outdated or stupid. Parents who leave their children in a locked and warm vehicle and run in to pay for gas, 20 feet from the vehicle, are reported to child services by “well-meaning