Remember when you used to walk 10 miles to school in the snow, uphill, both ways? Yeah . . . apparently today, that would get your parents ARRESTED.


--In another sign that we're raising the softest, most coddled generation of children ever, 34-year-old Valerie Borders of Jonesboro, Arkansas was arrested on Monday for making her kid walk to school.


--Valerie's 10-year-old son kept getting in trouble on the bus: He was suspended from riding FIVE times. So as a punishment, she told him he had to WALK the four-and-a-half miles to school until he learned how to behave on the bus.


--Her son only made it a few BLOCKS before the police picked him up. And then, they arrested Valerie for endangering the welfare of a minor.


--She could get up to ONE YEAR IN JAIL and a $1,000 fine.


--To her son's credit, he was more rational than the adults who took his side. He says, quote, "[My mother] did the right thing. She knew that I had been suspended off the bus . . . she made me walk. They shouldn't have picked me up."