Some new ideas for ‘Nanny Bills’
While there have always been "nanny bills" to address the multitude of cultural wrongs in our society, the number appears to have increased in recent years.
The California Legislature has considered several such bills since last year that address some important issues, but should probably have been amended, including:
- Smoking (both legal and illegal cigarettes I assume) in vehicles with children and is now the law. I’d actually vote for this bill even though I doubt it will inspire anyone thoughtless enough to smoke in front of children in a car to comply with this law.
- 17-18 year olds using electronic devices while driving, and is also a new law. Why just kids? In my experience, younger folks are able to multi-task better than adults!
- Spanking children under 5 years old. From my experience as a parent and a recipient of spanking, it doesn’t really work as a behavioral tool. But it might work on parents who insist on taking their obnoxious kids to places and then ignore them while the rest of our outings to restaurants and movies are ruined.
- Banning trans fats in school cafeterias and restaurants. As long as lard is still legal, what good will it do to ban trans fats?