Free Range Kids
- Thread starter shyvas
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I think that kids today are as safe or safer than they ever have been, notwithstanding the paranoia that has been created by national and international media focus on certain crimes.
That being said, sites like this one are off putting to me; these people seem so certain that their way is the best way that they're trying to convert everyone else. It takes a lot of ego to assume that much responsibility with so much certainty.
That being said, sites like this one are off putting to me; these people seem so certain that their way is the best way that they're trying to convert everyone else. It takes a lot of ego to assume that much responsibility with so much certainty.
ledboots
Peace
This.
I can see why "free range" parents are worried, though, with neighbors calling the authorities because siblings 9 and 6 years old walked home from the park in broad daylight. The State can take your kids away. That is way scarier than the remote chance of harm coming to the kids because they are not supervised constantly imo.
+1@ledboots
That's what most of us are afraid of, far more than crazed psycho killers jumping out of the bushes with chainsaws.
I make a habit of reading older copies of Louise Bates Ames' child development books to help sort out biology from culture, and also to keep myself sane as a wide age gap parent. The book for my youngest's age with a copyright date of the year my second born was born informs me that it is age appropriate for his "personal space" to have expanded so far beyond his immediate neighbourhood that it can be hard to find him.
The modern day reality is that he has never left the yard unaccompanied by an adult. Neither have most of his same-age friends.
That's what most of us are afraid of, far more than crazed psycho killers jumping out of the bushes with chainsaws.
I make a habit of reading older copies of Louise Bates Ames' child development books to help sort out biology from culture, and also to keep myself sane as a wide age gap parent. The book for my youngest's age with a copyright date of the year my second born was born informs me that it is age appropriate for his "personal space" to have expanded so far beyond his immediate neighbourhood that it can be hard to find him.
The modern day reality is that he has never left the yard unaccompanied by an adult. Neither have most of his same-age friends.
