It's odd that mobile phones didn't change this trend. You'd think the giving a 6 year old something they could use if they did get in trouble and that enabled

It's odd that mobile phones didn't change this trend. You'd think the giving a 6 year old something they could use if they did get in trouble and that enabled parents to talk to them would make it safer. I walked to school in the 1980s and would really like my kids to do the same, but my partner, who also walked to school, won't have it.