I've thought about this a decent amount and I just can't agree that unsupervised outdoor wandering is a good thing before maybe middle school. Kids are stupid a

I've thought about this a decent amount and I just can't agree that unsupervised outdoor wandering is a good thing before maybe middle school. Kids are stupid and even the smart ones get peer pressured into doing stupid things that can injure or kill them. Like when I crushed my wrist riding a bike downhill on a paved road in 2nd or 1st grade. Those kids apparently rode on roads all the time which looking back seems irresponsible as hell. Unsupervised in a house or on a property in a good area is fine too. I just can't agree with letting small kids wander into cities or roads or forests on their own. On the other hand I feel like open-ended and/or educational video games like Minecraft fill a similar need for self determination/experimentation/exploration just fine to a degree.