How This Sparked A MASSIVE Parenting Debate Online | Episode 20
The Brett Cooper Show
Brett Cooper
5 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
A man was arrested for leaving his three children at a McDonalds alone, which sparked a viral debate all around one question: have parents become too overprotective?
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| 0:00.0 | So this might be crazy to think about in 2025, considering everything that we have heard about New York City and the subway system. |
| 0:06.0 | But when I was a kid and I was in New York visiting my family who has lived there for 30 years, when I was auditioning, doing acting classes and dance classes, I would very frequently ride the subway alone. |
| 0:17.0 | And this is not the only thing that I did independently as a kid. |
| 0:20.0 | My mom was 100% committed to raising |
| 0:21.7 | independent, resilient kids, and that started with doing things alone confidently. But apparently, |
| 0:27.4 | that is very controversial. So a recent story about a father being arrested for leaving his three |
| 0:34.7 | children at a local McDonald's has blown the entire |
| 0:38.3 | helicopter parenting debate into the limelight in a major way on social media, which |
| 0:42.3 | also perfectly coincides with a movement that author and psychologist Jonathan Haidt has |
| 0:46.2 | been pushing in a debate that my friend Alex Clark has literally been having on her own |
| 0:49.9 | social media this week. And so the questions that we need to dive into today are |
| 0:53.9 | how much |
| 0:54.4 | freedom do young children actually need? How much is too dangerous? And why are modern parents |
| 0:59.3 | so damn afraid of childhood independence? But before we dive into that story, make sure that you |
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| 1:15.2 | all of your beautiful faces in person and meet a bunch of you. All right, so you guys might have |
| 1:18.6 | seen this story already because it went mega viral last week on X, but basically this huge |
| 1:23.4 | story broke on X last week after a father in Augusta, Georgia was arrested for allegedly |
| 1:28.5 | leaving his three children alone at a McDonald's while he attended a job interview nearby. |
| 1:32.9 | One headline from everything Georgia reads, a 24-year-old Augusta man was arrested for leaving |
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