Shut up and Obey! We know what's best for you.

We know what's best. First, we have Michigan.

State to mom: Stop baby-sitting neighbors' kids

Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood's children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school.


Regulators who oversee child care, however, don't see it as charity. Days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she'd be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers.

We can't have neighbors helping each other; that's the government's job.  I knew Detroit was messed up, but I had hope for the rest of the state. I was wrong.

Second, we have New York.

School district could backpedal on policy

Seventh-grader Adam Marino is getting a firsthand lesson in civil disobedience.

The 12-year-old and his mother, Janette Kaddo Marino, are defying Saratoga Springs school policy by biking to Maple Avenue Middle School on Route 9. The Jackson Street residents pedal more than four miles together each way to the middle school on nice days despite being told not to by school officials and police.

I applaud this Mother for standing up against an out of control system and teaching her son to do the same. The country could use more of this sort of parenting.

The biking debate started last spring, when school district officials told Kaddo Marino that Adam was violating school rules by biking to class. Walking to the school also is not permitted.

Kids getting exercise and fresh air.  What is the world coming to?  Before you know it they will be eating vegetables.  We have to nip it in the bud!