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And nowadays, even if you live in an apartment building in the city, there is no way your child is going to roam around and explore alone.
by jedmeyers 10y ago
And nowadays, even if you live in an apartment building in the city, there is no way your child is going to roam around and explore alone.
- mooreds 10y agoKids where I live do roam around the neighborhood, at least to some extent. I see them out and about.
- gozur88 10y agoNot where I live. My brother has a house in a neighborhood that's full of young families, but if you walked through it you'd think it was a retirement community - not a kid in sight. All the children are carefully shuttled from one supervised activity to another. I'm not really sure why that is. Crime is almost nonexistent, and the weather is nice.
- abalashov 10y agoThat's by and large what I've seen in Atlanta as well.
- germanier 10y agoAt least in many parts of the US. Here in Germany I see plenty of children roaming around in the city every day.
- ptaipale 10y agoHowever, the culture of helicoptering kids everywhere (and hovering nearby, trying to control and risk-manage everything) is spreading to Europe more and more.
- kuschku 10y agoSadly. This is one of the negative effects of having mostly-foreign entertainment media, and I’d hope that the effect could be countered soon.
- ptaipale 10y agoEntertainment is one thing, but I think far from the only factor in spreading this. I tend to think that US is just somewhat ahead in most developments, and trends then come to Europe. In addition to near-hysteric control of what children do, we'll have gated communities in fear of crime, we'll have politically correct "safe spaces" in universities, and whatnot current US phenomena.
- sotojuan 10y agoThat seems to only be true in some parts of the US.