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Living in Germany, I've walked to the kindergarten alone (I think when I was four years old) and after knowing the way to school, I was walking there with my fr
by looperhacks 9y ago
Living in Germany, I've walked to the kindergarten alone (I think when I was four years old) and after knowing the way to school, I was walking there with my friends and without parents. We spent hours outside without our parents knowing where we are because we knew where we were allowed to go and what we where allowed to do (This didn't mean we listened, though).
- eru 9y agoYes, Germany is still mostly on the sane side. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15945543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15945543
- gtirloni 9y agoSame in Brazil in the 80's. The same parents that were okay with me going to kindergarten by myself and sometimes cooking partial meals alone, now are horrified that such things happened (with their consent). I think it speaks a lot to how much society has changed, their current mindset would not accept the same behavior they themselves had a few decades ago. I remember being stopped by strangers asking "where are you going? School? Ok, watch out when crossing the streets". Nowadays nobody would intervene directly... They would probably call the police and take me into custody. "Practical Wisdom" (Barry Schwartz) is a good book about this.