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The essential question at the end, for parents caught in the bind: "Even if I do send them out, will there be anyone to play with?" Free-range children are jus
by panglott 10y ago
The essential question at the end, for parents caught in the bind: "Even if I do send them out, will there be anyone to play with?"
Free-range children are just rare these days.
- api 10y agoIn many places you can be charged with a crime and possibly get social services called on you for letting kids just run around. These are often not high crime areas. The irony is that kids were allowed to run around back when crime rates were far higher.
- honkhonkpants 10y agoMy kids are like the Census Bureau: they go down the street knocking on doors, asking if there are any kids there. But, as much as I encourage them to do it, there's never anyone home even at the places where we know the kids live. Their schedules are structured and they spend all their time somewhere else. My kids don't have any real friends except each other which I find a little sad.