The nanny state needs a timeout. A judge recently found Karyann Parkinson, a Virginia mom of five, guilty of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. She was given a suspended jail sentence and placed on the state’s child abuse and neglect registry. She has appealed. That charge makes it sound as if Parkinson committed a serious offense. Perhaps she told her son to steal a necklace from a store or supplied him with alcohol. Nope. She let her 5-year-old son, Sam, walk to a nearby pond to collect goose feathers. She and Sam had been there earlier that day. It was a half a mile away. He asked to go back after they had returned home. Parkinson, who was eight-months pregnant, said that would be fine. She knew that the walking trail was set back from the road and that Sam was careful when crossing the street. Perhaps, Parkinson lived in a dangerous neighborhood. Hardly. Her family lived in Ford’s Colony, which describes itself as a “secure, multigenerational gated community… situated on a landscape of golf courses, ponds, wetlands and woodlands in Williamsburg, Virginia.” But someo