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Some of them are quite nice but being a parent myself I don't subscribe to all of them. Which is expected, of course. And then there are some tweets which are
by kleiba 7y ago
Some of them are quite nice but being a parent myself I don't subscribe to all of them. Which is expected, of course.
And then there are some tweets which are very situation/environment specific, like for instance the one about walking to school alone:
10 yo asked when I'd let him and his 7 yo brother walk to school by themselves. I told him the task was not to get himself to school safely, but to get his brother to school safely. I could practically hear his brain struggle to assimilate this paradigm shift.
All of my class mates and I walked to school alone from first class on (6 yrs of age) simply because we used to live in a smaller town where that was no problem. I'd even think that a parent driving their elementary school kids to school would have been looked at funny by the other parents.
Or this one:
Explained to nervous 7 yo that me being on the floor above is the same as me being in the next room, just rotated 90 degrees. After trying various objections, he had to agree.
While it might be true topologically, of course there are just practical every-day considerations why the are not exactly the same.
So, yeah, I find a lot of the tweets entertaining, but not as deeply insightful than some other commenters here.
- qznc 7y agoOur older one goes to school himself from first grade on. The second is about to start school. Each one getting to school safely is not the problem. Getting them to school safely if they walk together is a problem.
- kleiba 7y agoI used to walk with class mates most of the time, I don't remember that making much of a difference if any. But of course, that's the judgment of my 6-year old self. In any event, it just comes down to what I stated above: all of this is / can be very dependent on the specific situation / environment that you live in.
- mtreis86 7y agoYeah, to someone who is wheelchair bound, that the room above them which is only accessible by stairs, is not even close to the same as the room next door.
- LargeWu 7y agoWhile that's definitely true, I don' think that's the point here. The 7 yo had anxiety about proximity, which is very common in children that age. They just want to know that the adult is nearby and has not abandoned them.
- lonelappde 7y agoNo one is wheelchair bound. Some people are wheelchair enabled.
- ryanlol 7y ago> simply because we used to live in a smaller town where that was no problem Is this a problem anywhere outside the US? (I’m sure there are a few exceptions)