Surely you know about the pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving in 1621, but what do Americans do now on Thanksgiving? Check out this post from Voice of America:
http://blogs.voanews.com/student-union/2011/11/23/5-weird-things-that-happen-on-american-thanksgiving/
And what do you think of this story below? Is it fair?
Teens banned from shopping alone on Black Friday at Mall of America
By Lisa Flam
Do you drop your kids off at the mall for a little post Turkey Day shopping or take them with you but let them go off on their own to browse the holiday sales?
If you shop at the Mall of America, the nation’s largest mall, you won’t be able to do that this year during peak holiday shopping times if your children are 15 or younger.
After a chair-throwing melee involving unruly young people during Christmas week last year, the Bloomington, Minn., mall is extending its parental escort policy this year, the Pioneer Press reported this week.
The policy, which requires kids under 16 to be accompanied by someone 21 or older on Fridays and Saturdays after 4 p.m., will be in effect during mall hours on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, and from the day after Christmas until New Year’s Eve. The mall has had the weekend policy since 1996.
The chair-throwing incident, which was caught on video and posted online, wasn’t the primary reason for cracking down on unaccompanied young shoppers, said Dan Jasper, the mall’s vice president of public relations, who cited a record number of shoppers last year on Black Friday.
“We had never opened at midnight on Black Friday prior to last year,” he told TODAY Moms. “We had 217,000 people that day, including some unaccompanied kids who are 14, 15. Just for the safety of everyone, we expanded the policy.”
“The reason behind it is to make sure this is a safe environment,” he said.
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