The Hidden Brain.

Revealing patterns of the mind.

Please do not be alarmed.

The adults in my life know where I am.

They practice something called free range parenting.

We've gone out with them.

We've talked them out across the street.

We've observed them.

You know, it's not like we somehow drop them off in the middle of a jungle and said,

fed for yourselves, kid.

The state has now set the Matees a letter saying what they've done is unsubstantiated child

neglect.

The Matees say the county is applying a law that says you can't leave a young child alone

in a car or building.

To them, that law can be stretched to be up anywhere, playgrounds walking open school,

and to us, that's apples and oranges.

Is what I'm doing messing up my kid?

That's the question many parents ask, and it's the subject of today's Hidden Brain.

I'm Shankar Vidantham and I too am a parent.

The new slips we heard from W USA 9 and DC's Fox 5 local news are of the Matee family in

Silver Spring, Maryland.

Daniel and Alexander Matee have allowed their 10-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter to

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